If you want to read the study it is here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59285-1

If you cannot here is a summary: "Biotic resistance predictably shifts microbial invasion regimes" by Ye, Shalev, and Ratzke (2025) explores how established microbial communities influence the success of invading microbes. The authors demonstrate that "biotic resistance"—interactions among resident microbes—can suppress or even entirely block the spread of invaders, regardless of environmental suitability. Through experiments and simulations, they identify three distinct invasion regimes: consistent, pulsed, and pinned. They also develop a simple, parameter-free model that can accurately predict these regimes without needing detailed knowledge of species-level interactions. This model proves robust across a range of microbial ecosystems, providing a valuable tool for predicting and managing microbial invasions in contexts like medicine, agriculture, and ecology."

It basically enhances our understanding on microbial invasion dynamics.

Interesting article.

Just for the future, if you refer to an article, you generally do not use the journal (i.e. according to Nature), but you refer to the researchers. This would be either Ye, Shalev, and Ratzke as in the first sentence of the summary. Or it could be Ye et al., referring to the first author, or you can refer to the corresponding author, who is usually the PI (i.e. Ratzke or Ratzke's group). Some also prefer to just generally refer to the location. I.e. German researchers or a research group in Tuebingen. The latter is more used by news outlets, but I often also do it, if I cannot remember the authors....

16 minutes ago, CharonY said:

Interesting article.

Just for the future, if you refer to an article, you generally do not use the journal (i.e. according to Nature), but you refer to the researchers. This would be either Ye, Shalev, and Ratzke as in the first sentence of the summary. Or it could be Ye et al., referring to the first author, or you can refer to the corresponding author, who is usually the PI (i.e. Ratzke or Ratzke's group). Some also prefer to just generally refer to the location. I.e. German researchers or a research group in Tuebingen. The latter is more used by news outlets, but I often also do it, if I cannot remember the authors....

Thanks for the tip, will do