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SUBMITTER: Kaiser C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4697322 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20151201
The chemical structure of organic matter has been shown to be only marginally important for its decomposability by microorganisms. The question of why organic matter does accumulate in the face of powerful microbial degraders is thus key for understanding terrestrial carbon and nitrogen cycling. Here we demonstrate, based on an individual-based microbial community model, that social dynamics among microbes producing extracellular enzymes ('decomposers') and microbes exploiting the catalytic acti ...[more]