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. 2024 Sep 12;189(5):82. doi: 10.1007/s11046-024-00887-6

Fig. 3.

Fig. 3

The “Climax-Attack” model for CF airways. The “Climax-Attack model” is an ecological model adapted to explain the progressive loss of microbial diversity and the replacement of pioneer communities by adapted communities to CF airways. The figure was adapted from the articles of Quinn et al. npj Biofilms Microbiomes. 2016; Soret et al. Sci Rep. 2020; Conrad et al. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 2013 [15, 89, 90] and created, in part, with BioRender.com