Juli Pereto

Metabolic complementation in bacterial communities: necessary conditions and optimality

The paper models metabolic complementation in bacterial communities and identifies conditions for its emergence, finding that product inhibition and high permeability are necessary.

Nature lessons: the whitefly bacterial endosymbiont is a minimal amino acid factory with unusual energetics

The paper constructs a genome-scale metabolic model of the whitefly endosymbiont to show that its energy production is linked to amino acid and carotenoid synthesis, challenging the idea that genome reduction limits biosynthetic potential.

A highly diverse, desert-like microbial biocenosis on solar panels in a Mediterranean city

The paper characterizes the microbial community on solar panels in Valencia, Spain, finding it highly diverse and similar to desert ecosystems.