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This figure is adapted from <span class="citation">(<a href="#ref-Tignat-Perrier2022">Tignat-Perrier et al. 2022</a>)</span> under Creative Commons license.</p>
<p>Microbes almost never live alone in the real world (i.e., outside of a laboratory). Rather they exist in communities of different species who are interacting with each other and their environment. Some of these communities will have many different