Fitness advantage of sequential metabolic strategies emerges from community interactions in strongly fluctuating environments

• Zihan Wang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

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• Yu Fu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Akshit Goyal ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: maslov@illinois.edu (SM); akshitg@icts.res.in (AG)

  Affiliation International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bengaluru, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9425-8269

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• Sergei Maslov

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: maslov@illinois.edu (SM); akshitg@icts.res.in (AG)

  Affiliations Department of Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3701-492X

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