Biodiversity of marine microbes is safeguarded by phenotypic heterogeneity in ecological traits

Why, contrary to theoretical predictions, do marine microbe communities harbor tremendous phenotypic heterogeneity? How can so many marine microbe species competing in the same niche coexist? We discovered a unifying explanation for both phenomena by investigating a non-cooperative game that interpo...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Susanne Menden-Deuer, Julie Rowlett, Medet Nursultanov, Sinead Collins, Tatiana Rynearson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8336841/?tool=EBI