However, the dependence of phytoplankton maximum growth rate on cell size is non-monotonic, with smaller species following an increasing trend (qualitatively similar to that used here for E. coli ) but larger species showing a negative correlation with cell size ( Marañón et al., 2013 ).
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Evolutionarily Stable Coevolution Between a Plastic Lytic Virus and Its Microbial Host.
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Viral density, however, shows a negative trend in the non-plastic case, whereas it remains approximately constant for the plastic model.