ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2016
Metabolic Complementation in Bacterial Communities: Necessary Conditions and Optimality.
Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed.
- Genomic prediction of symbiotic interactions between two Endozoicomonas clades and their coral host, Acropora loripes.Animal microbiome · 2025Article
- Genomic potential of crustose coralline algae-associated bacteria for the biosynthesis of novel antimicrobials.Microbial genomics · 2025Article
- Differential aggregation patterns of Endozoicomonas within tissues of the coral Acropora loripes.The ISME journal · 2025Article
- Ecological design of high-performance synthetic microbial communities: from theoretical foundations to functional optimization.ISME communications · 2025Review
- The multispecies microbial cluster of Fusobacterium, Parvimonas, Bacteroides and Faecalibacterium as a precision biomarker for colorectal cancer diagnosis.Molecular oncology · 2024Article
- Interspecies Metabolic Complementation in Cystic Fibrosis Pathogens via Purine Exchange.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- The Construction of Biological 'Inter-Identity' as the Outcome of a Complex Process of Protocell Development in Prebiotic Evolution.Frontiers in physiology · 2020Article
- An enormous potential for niche construction through bacterial cross-feeding in a homogeneous environment.PLoS computational biology · 2018Article
- The evolutionary dynamics of metabolic protocells.PLoS computational biology · 2018Article
- Tremblaya phenacola PPER: an evolutionary beta-gammaproteobacterium collage.The ISME journal · 2018Article
- Predictive Genomic Analyses Inform the Basis for Vitamin Metabolism and Provisioning in Bacteria-Arthropod Endosymbioses.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2017Article
- Determinism and Contingency Shape Metabolic Complementation in an Endosymbiotic Consortium.Frontiers in microbiology · 2017Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Bacterial communities may display metabolic complementation, in which different members of the association partially contribute to the same biosynthetic pathway. In this way, the end product of the pathway is synthesized by the community as a whole. However, the emergence and the benefits of such complementation are poorly understood. Herein, we present a simple model to analyze the metabolic interactions among bacteria, including the host in the case of endosymbiotic bacteria. The model considers two cell populations, with both cell types encoding for the same linear biosynthetic pathway. We have found that, for metabolic complementation to emerge as an optimal strategy, both product inhibition and large permeabilities are needed. In the light of these results, we then consider the patterns found in the case of tryptophan biosynthesis in the endosymbiont consortium hosted by the aphid
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.