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SUBMITTER: Mutlu A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7784978 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mutlu Alper A Kaspar Charlotte C Becker Nils N Bischofs Ilka B IB
The ISME journal 20200728 11
Quality-quantity tradeoffs govern the production of propagules across taxa and can explain variability in life-history traits in higher organisms. A quality-quantity tradeoff was recently discovered in spore forming bacteria, but whether it impacts fitness is unclear. Here we show both theoretically and experimentally that the nutrient supply during spore revival determines the fitness advantage associated with different sporulation behaviors in Bacillus subtilis. By tuning sporulation rates we ...[more]