Article
A stable genetic polymorphism underpinning microbial syntrophy.
The ISME journal - 1 Dec 2016
Großkopf Tobias, Zenobi Simone, Alston Mark, Folkes Leighton, Swarbreck David, Soyer Orkun S
Abstract excerpt
Syntrophies are metabolic cooperations, whereby two organisms co-metabolize a substrate in an interdependent manner. Many of the observed natural syntrophic interactions are mandatory in the absence of strong electron acceptors, such that one species in the syntrophy has to assume the role of electron sink for the other. While this presents an ecological setting for syntrophy to be beneficial, the potential...
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