Model Communities Hint at Promiscuous Metabolic Linkages between Ubiquitous Free-Living Freshwater Bacteria

ABSTRACT Genome streamlining is frequently observed in free-living aquatic microorganisms and results in physiological dependencies between microorganisms. However, we know little about the specificity of these microbial associations. In order to examine the specificity and extent of these associati...

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Main Authors: Sarahi L. Garcia, Moritz Buck, Joshua J. Hamilton, Christian Wurzbacher, Hans-Peter Grossart, Katherine D. McMahon, Alexander Eiler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2018-06-01
Series:mSphere
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSphere.00202-18