Recipient-Biased Competition for an Intracellularly Generated Cross-Fed Nutrient Is Required for Coexistence of Microbial Mutualists
ABSTRACT Many mutualistic microbial relationships are based on nutrient cross-feeding. Traditionally, cross-feeding is viewed as being unidirectional, from the producer to the recipient. This is likely true when a producer’s waste, such as a fermentation product, has value only for a recipient. Howe...
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| Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2017-12-01
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| Series: | mBio |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.01620-17 |