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Marine microbiology: Roommates in space and time

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Proteomics analyses reveal how the long-term coexistence of the marine picocyanobacterium Synechococcus and the heterotroph Ruegeria pomeroyi, of the globally abundant marine Roseobacter group, is based on the mutual and beneficial recycling of inorganic and organic nitrogen compounds.

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Figure 1: Mutual exchange of nutrients between the cyanobacterium Synechococcus and R. pomeroyi of the Roseobacter group maintains coexistence in a long-term co-culture experiment.

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