Fitness and stability of obligate cross-feeding interactions that emerge upon gene loss in bacteria

ISME Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 953-962

  Pande, Samay ^a   Merker, Holger ^a   Bohl, Katrin ^a,b   Reichelt, Michael ^a   Schuster, Stefan ^b   De Figueiredo, Luís F ^b,c   Kaleta, Christoph ^b   Kost, Christian ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

division of labour; frequency dependent selection; metabolic cross feeding; obligate cooperation; synthetic ecology; syntrophy

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; FITNESS; GENE; METABOLITE; CELL ORGANELLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; GROWTH RATE; METABOLISM; STABILIZATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; ECOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

BACTERIA; ECOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC FITNESS; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS;

EID: 84899480571     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2013.211     Document Type: Article

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