Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Stabilization of Microbial Communities by Responsive Phenotypic
  Switching   Clonal microbes can switch between different phenotypes and recent
theoretical work has shown that stochastic switching between these
subpopulations can stabilize microbial communities. This phenotypic switching
need not be stochastic, however, but can also be in response to environmental
factors, both biotic and abiotic. Here, motivated by the bacterial persistence
phenotype, we explore the ecological effects of such responsive switching by
analyzing phenotypic switching in response to competing species. We show how
the stability of microbial communities with responsive switching differs
generically from that of communities with stochastic switching only. To
understand this effect, we go on to analyse simple two-species models.
Combining exact results and numerical simulations, we extend the classical
stability results for models of two competing species without phenotypic
variation to the case where one of the two species switches, stochastically and
responsively, between two phenotypes. In particular, we show that responsive
switching can stabilize coexistence even when stochastic switching on its own
does not affect the stability of the community.

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The categories of this paper are: acc-phys
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The categories of this paper are: supr-con
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ex
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The categories of this paper are: plasm-ph
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The categories of this paper are: chem-ph
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-ex
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The categories of this paper are: nlin
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The categories of this paper are: dg-ga
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The categories of this paper are: math-ph
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The categories of this paper are: hep-lat
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The categories of this paper are: alg-geom
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The categories of this paper are: cmp-lg
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The categories of this paper are: ao-sci
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The categories of this paper are: adap-org
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The categories of this paper are: q-fin
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The categories of this paper are: math