Evolution of bidirectional costly mutualism from byproduct consumption. https://t.co/Q1G1VipLIE Shows an evolutionary pathway to get from a microbe consuming another microbe's waste all the way to the two microbe species sharing costly nutrients with …
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"Reductions in the relative benefit of additional cooperation are likely to frequently constrain selection for an 'orgy of mutual benefaction'" - Harcombe et. al 2018 This paper is one of my new personal favorites. https://t.co/Q1G1VipLIE #Evolution…
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Evolution of bidirectional costly mutualism from byproduct consumption. https://t.co/qTmmvcJgLy
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RT @HarcombeLab: Excited to get this paper out showing E. coli repeatedly evolved to secrete sugar in a cross-feeding co-culture. Evoluti…