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Roles for dimethylsulfoniopropionate-based infochemical signalling in ocean microbiome ecosystems are reported in a pair of Nature Microbiology papers.

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Fig. 1: Dimethyl sulfide and acrylate released from intact and grazed phytoplankton mediate different responses among phytoplankton grazers.

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