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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Main Authors: Alexandra L. McCully, Breah LaSarre, James B. McKinlay
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2017
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/b9c7583a02e0434799c115eeb974a210
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