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Privatization of cooperative benefits stabilizes mutualistic cross-feeding interactions in spatially structured environments.
The ISME journal - 1 Jun 2016
Pande Samay, Kaftan Filip, Lang Stefan, Svatoš Aleš, Germerodt Sebastian, Kost Christian
Abstract excerpt
Metabolic cross-feeding interactions are ubiquitous in natural microbial communities. However, it remains generally unclear whether the production and exchange of metabolites incurs fitness costs to the producing cells and if so, which ecological mechanisms can facilitate a cooperative exchange of metabolites among unrelated individuals. We hypothesized that positive assortment within structured environments can...
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