Model communities hint to promiscuous metabolic linkages between ubiquitous free-living freshwater bacteria
S. L. Garcia, M. Buck, J. J. Hamilton, C. Wurzbacher, M. A. Alm Rosenblad, K. D. D. McMahon, H.-P. Grossart, F. Warnecke, A. Eiler
The paper investigates metabolic interactions among free-living freshwater bacteria and finds they form loose, unspecific cooperative networks rather than specific dependencies.
bioRxiv · Jan 28, 2017Microbiology