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It is proposed that the explicit consideration of these factors is critical to understanding the competitive basis of microbial strategies.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: Wide ranging, seemingly unrelated Escherichia coli physiological fluxes can be simply and accurately described as linear combinations of a few ecologically relevant stress adaptations. These strategies were identified by decomposing the central metabolism of E.coli into elementary modes (mathematically defined biochemical pathways) and assessing the resource investment cost\u2013benefit properties for each pathway. The approach capitalizes on the inherent tradeoffs related to investing finite resources like nitrogen into different pathway enzymes when the pathways have varying metabolic efficiencies. The subset of ecologically competitive pathways represented 0.02% of the total permissible pathways. The biological relevance of the assembled strategies was tested against 10 000 randomly constructed pathway subsets. None of the randomly assembled collections were able to describe all of the considered experimental data as accurately as the cost-based subset. The results suggest these metabolic strategies are biologically significant. The current descriptions were compared with linear programming (LP)-based flux descriptions using the Euclidean distance metric. The current study's pathway subset described the experimental fluxes with better accuracy than the LP results without having to test multiple objective functions or constraints and while providing additional ecological insight into microbial behavior. The assembled pathways seem to represent a generalized set of strategies that can describe a wide range of microbial responses and hint at evolutionary processes where a handful of successful metabolic strategies are utilized simultaneously in different combinations to adapt to diverse conditions.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0rossc@biofilms.montana.edu<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btn589","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2008,11,14]],"date-time":"2008-11-14T01:25:06Z","timestamp":1226625906000},"page":"90-97","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":39,"title":["Decomposition of complex microbial behaviors into resource-based stress responses"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"25","author":[{"given":"Ross P.","family":"Carlson","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Center for Biofilm Engineering and Thermal Biology Institute, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2008,11,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023013110023256100_B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"114","DOI":"10.1128\/jb.144.1.114-123.1980","article-title":"Are growth rates of Escherichia coli in batch cultures limited by respiration?","volume":"144","author":"Andersen","year":"1980","journal-title":"J. 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