Article
Sympatric inhibition and niche differentiation suggest alternative coevolutionary trajectories among Streptomycetes.
The ISME journal - 1 Feb 2014
Kinkel Linda L, Schlatter Daniel C, Xiao Kun, Baines Anita D
Abstract excerpt
Soil bacteria produce a diverse array of antibiotics, yet our understanding of the specific roles of antibiotics in the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of microbial interactions in natural habitats remains limited. Here, we show a significant role for antibiotics in mediating antagonistic interactions and nutrient competition among locally coexisting Streptomycete populations from soil. We found that...
Topics
- Anti-Bacterial Agents
- Antibiosis
- Biological Evolution
- Ecosystem
- Phenotype
- Soil Microbiology
- Streptomycetaceae
