Limits to the evolution of metabolic dependency in spatially structured microbial communities.

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This revealed a clear trend where a 10% increase in the fraction of auxotrophs within the local neighborhood was associated with an average decrease in growth rates of 7% for methionine auxotrophs, 12% for proline auxotrophs, and 9% for tryptophan auxotrophs.

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