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Science 20 July 2007:
Vol. 317. no. 5836, pp. 327 - 328
DOI: 10.1126/science.1145970
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Perspectives

MICROBIOLOGY:
Life on the Thermodynamic Edge

Edward F. DeLong

Metabolic cooperation enables some microbial partners to thrive on low-energy carbon sources that neither partner could utilize on its own.

The author is at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. E-mail: delong{at}mit.edu

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