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    Metabolic exchanges are ubiquitous in natural microbial communities

    Microbial communities drive global biogeochemical cycles and shape the health of plants and animals—including humans. Their structure and function are determined by ecological and environmental interactions th...

    Christian Kost, Kiran Raosaheb Patil, Jonathan Friedman in Nature Microbiology (2023)

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    Jochen Graw, Klaus Hantke, Wolfgang Wohlleben, Christian Kost in BIOspektrum (2021)

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    Gemeinsam stärker: metabolische Arbeitsteilung bei Bakterien

    Microorganisms frequently engage in reciprocal cross-feeding interactions, in which two or more bacterial strains exchange essential metabolites. Benefits stemming from losing the biosynthetic capabilities to ...

    Christian Kost in BIOspektrum (2015)

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    Einblicke in das Sozialleben von Mikroben

    The evolution of cooperation is an intriguing puzzle in evolutionary biology. Several examples have been described where individual microbial cells cooperate by secreting products that are beneficial for the w...

    Theresa Hölscher, Christian Kost, Ákos T. Kovács in BIOspektrum (2015)

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    The evolutionary emergence of stochastic phenotype switching in bacteria

    Stochastic phenotype switching – or bet hedging – is a pervasive feature of living systems and common in bacteria that experience fluctuating (unpredictable) environmental conditions. Under such conditions, th...

    Paul B Rainey, Hubertus JE Beaumont, Gayle C Ferguson in Microbial Cell Factories (2011)