Mechanistic model of nutrient uptake explains dichotomy between marine oligotrophic and copiotrophic bacteria.

Marine bacterial diversity is immense and believed to be driven in part by trade-offs in metabolic strategies. Here we consider heterotrophs that rely on organic carbon as an energy source and present a molecular-level model of cell metabolism that explains the dichotomy between copiotrophs-which do...

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Main Authors: Noele Norris, Naomi M Levine, Vicente I Fernandez, Roman Stocker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-05-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009023