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Leonardo Oña

Osnabrück UniversityORCID 0000-0002-0883-7134Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:bacteria (other)· 1 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 1

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Ankit Shekhar· 1 shared Christian KostiD· 1 shared D. WelteriD· 1 shared Francisco ZorrillaiD· 1 shared Ghada YousifiD· 1 shared Kiran Raosaheb PatiliD· 1 shared Michael Itermann· 1 shared Rui GuaniD· 1 shared

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Obligate cross-feeding of metabolites is common in soil microbial communities

Ghada Yousif, Francisco Zorrilla, Swagatika Dash, Leonardo Oña, Ankit Shekhar, Samir Giri, Rui Guan, Sharvari Harshe, Michael Itermann, D. Welter, Vladimı́r Beneš, Kiran Raosaheb Patil, Christian Kost

The paper shows that many soil bacteria depend on metabolite supplementation from other community members, revealing widespread cross-feeding in soil microbial communities.

Nature Microbiology · Aug 24, 2026Peer-reviewedMicrobiology

Analyzing the dynamics in defense/counter-defense games among hosts and pathogens

Shalu Dwivedi, Leonardo Oña, Stefan Schuster

The paper models the evolutionary dynamics of defense and counter-defense strategies between hosts and pathogens using game theory to show how these interactions lead to periodic strategy adjustments and fitness buffering.

bioRxiv · May 30, 2026 · PreprintSystems Biology