Enhanced metabolic entanglement emerges during the evolution of an interkingdom microbial community
Giovanni Scarinci, Jan-Luca Ariens, Georgia Angelidou, Sebastian Schmidt, Timo Glatter, Nicole Paczia, Victor Sourjik
This study evolves an engineered microbial community to show how metabolic interactions increase, leading to interdependence and indirect selection for mutualism.
Nature Communications · Aug 22, 2024Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology