Beware batch culture: Seasonality and niche construction predicted to favor bacterial adaptive diversification.

Metabolic cross-feeding interactions between microbial strains are common in nature, and emerge during evolution experiments in the laboratory, even in homogeneous environments providing a single carbon source. In sympatry, when the environment is well-mixed, the reasons why emerging cross-feeding i...

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Main Authors: Charles Rocabert, Carole Knibbe, Jessika Consuegra, Dominique Schneider, Guillaume Beslon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-03-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5391122?pdf=render