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March 29, 2026The ISME JournalOpen Access

Single-cell assembled genomes predict enhanced bacterial metabolic cross-feeding potential in carbon-enriched soils

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HGH. Henry GuoQXQicheng XuHZHe Zhang

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Single-cell sequencing reveals stronger metabolic interactions in carbon-rich soils, suggesting enhanced resource sharing among microorganisms.

Key Points

  • The research aims to understand how carbon availability influences microbial community structure and metabolic interactions in soils.
  • Applied single-cell sequencing technologies to analyze microbial genomes.
  • Used community metabolic modeling to assess metabolic interactions.
  • Compared microbial traits in carbon-enriched and carbon-depleted soils.
  • Microorganisms in carbon-enriched soils have larger genomes with more biosynthesis-related genes.
  • Carbon-depleted soils show streamlined genomes and higher GC content as an adaptation.
  • Metabolic modeling indicates increased potential for cross-feeding involving amino acids and aromatic compounds in carbon-rich soils.

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Guo et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69c8c30dde0f0f753b39da9fhttps://doi.org/10.1093/ismejo/wrag071
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