Low anabolic independence emerges when cultivating more than three bacterial species together
Armando Pacheco-Valenciana, Anna Tausch, Iva Veseli, Jennah E. Dharamshi, Fabian Bergland, Luis Fernando Delgado Zambrano, Alejandro Rodríguez-Gijón, Anders F. Andersson, Sarahi L. Garcia
The paper cultivates microbial communities from the Baltic Sea and finds that species in multi-species cultures have smaller genomes and rely on metabolic partners.
bioRxiv · Apr 28, 2025 · PreprintMicrobiology