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Give and take in the exometabolome

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Metabolic changes in auxotrophs enrich the microbial community exometabolome and increase drug resistance.

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Fig. 1: SeMeCos to determine the effects of auxotrophs.

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  1. Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, USA

    Kevin R. Stindt & Megan N. McClean

  2. Program in Biophysics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, USA

    Kevin R. Stindt & Megan N. McClean

  3. University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA

    Megan N. McClean

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Stindt, K.R., McClean, M.N. Give and take in the exometabolome. Nat Microbiol 7, 484–485 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-022-01081-4

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