Obligate cross-feeding expands the metabolic niche of bacteria
L. Ona, S. Giri, N. Avermann, M. Kreienbaum, K. Thormann, C. Kost
This study shows that obligate cross-feeding between bacterial species expands their collective metabolic niche space more than it contracts it, especially between distantly related specialists.
bioRxiv · Nov 4, 2020Evolutionary Biology