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Modelling of the interactions between antibiotic production and antibiotic degradation reveals that these opposing activities are key to maintaining diversity in microbial communities. See Letter p.516

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Figure 1: Cyclical dynamics in a 'rock–paper–scissors' game with public goods.

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Bergstrom, C., Kerr, B. Taking the bad with the good. Nature 521, 431–432 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14525

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