Metabolic crossfeeding is an important process that can broadly shape microbial
communities. However, little is known about specific crossfeeding principles that drive the …

Bacterial communities are taxonomically highly diverse, yet the mechanisms that maintain
this diversity remain poorly understood. We hypothesized that an obligate and mutual …

Literature covered: early 2000s to late 2017 Bacteria frequently exchange metabolites with
other micro-and macro-organisms. In these often obligate cross-feeding interactions, primary …

Microbes are ubiquitous in our biosphere, and inevitably live in communities. They excrete a
variety of metabolites and support the growth of other microbes in a community. According to …

Microorganisms form diverse communities that have a profound impact on the environment
and human health. Recent technological advances have enabled elucidation of community …

Mixed microbial communities exhibit emergent biochemical properties not found in clonal
monocultures. We report a new type of synthetic genetic interaction, synthetic mutualism in …

Syntrophy is a tightly coupled mutualistic interaction between hydrogen-/formate-producing
and hydrogen-/formate-using microorganisms that occurs throughout the microbial world …

Metabolic exchange mediates interactions among microbes, helping explain diversity in
microbial communities. As these interactions often involve a fitness cost, it is unclear how …

The exchange of metabolites among different bacterial genotypes profoundly impacts the
structure and function of microbial communities. However, the factors governing the …

Bacteria frequently engage in obligate metabolic mutualisms with other microorganisms.
However, it remains generally unclear how the resulting metabolic dependencies affect the …