Metabolic Overlap in Environmentally Diverse Microbial Communities

The majority of microbial communities consist of hundreds to thousands of species, creating a massive network of organisms competing for available resources within an ecosystem. In natural microbial communities, it appears that many microbial species have highly redundant metabolisms and seemingly a...

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Main Authors: Eric R. Hester, Mike S. M. Jetten, Cornelia U. Welte, Sebastian Lücker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Genetics
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fgene.2019.00989/full