ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021
Market forces determine the distribution of a leaky function in a simple microbial community.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Market forces determine the distribution of a leaky function in a simple microbial community.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
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Abstract
Many biological functions are leaky, and organisms that perform them contribute some of their products to a community "marketplace" in which nonperforming individuals may compete for them. Leaky functions are partitioned unequally in microbial communities, and the evolutionary forces determining which species perform them and which become beneficiaries are poorly understood. Here, we demonstrate that the market principle of comparative advantage determines the distribution of a leaky antibiotic resistance gene in an environment occupied by two "species"-strains of
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