Microbial communities can harbor many species that do not coexist in pairs, yet can coexist in the full community. Here we provide the mathematical foundations of emergent coexistence, and explain why it can't be predicted from pairwise tests journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
A theoretical framework for how ecological interactions between microbes affect mutant fitness https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.22.727324v1
