Also excited to share our latest collaboration with @micsysecolab.bsky.social. Divvya Ramesh showed how spatial structure can limit evolution of metabolic dependencies.
Simon van Vliet
Excited to share our new paper led by Divvya Ramesh: Limits to the evolution of metabolic dependency in spatially structured microbial communities 🧫
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In microbial communities, evolutionary processes can lead to loss of biosynthetic pathways, creating metabolic dependencies. The Black Queen Hypothesi…