Recipient-Biased Competition for an Intracellularly Generated Cross-Fed Nutrient Is Required for Coexistence of Microbial Mutualists
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. However, in s...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2017-11-01
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| Series: | mBio |
| Online Access: | http://mbio.asm.org/cgi/content/full/8/6/e01620-17 |