The Less Expensive Choice: Bacterial Strategies to Achieve Successful and Sustainable Reciprocal Interactions
Bacteria, the first organisms that appeared on Earth, continue to play a central role in ensuring life on the planet, both as biogeochemical agents and as higher organisms’ symbionts. In the last decades, they have been employed both as bioremediation agents for cleaning polluted sites and as biocon...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:bd17e0e6d52a4ff08691ca87990b1089 2023-05-15T17:51:22+02:00 The Less Expensive Choice: Bacterial Strategies to Achieve Successful and Sustainable Reciprocal Interactions Enrica Pessione 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.571417 https://doaj.org/article/bd17e0e6d52a4ff08691ca87990b1089 EN eng Frontiers Media S.A. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2020.571417/full https://doaj.org/toc/1664-302X 1664-302X doi:10.3389/fmicb.2020.571417 https://doaj.org/article/bd17e0e6d52a4ff08691ca87990b1089 Frontiers in Microbiology, Vol 11 (2021) economize sharing storing cooperative behaviors system communication Microbiology QR1-502 article 2021 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.571417 2022-12-31T04:56:54Z Bacteria, the first organisms that appeared on Earth, continue to play a central role in ensuring life on the planet, both as biogeochemical agents and as higher organisms’ symbionts. In the last decades, they have been employed both as bioremediation agents for cleaning polluted sites and as bioconversion effectors for obtaining a variety of products from wastes (including eco-friendly plastics and green energies). However, some recent reports suggest that bacterial biodiversity can be negatively affected by the present environmental crisis (global warming, soil desertification, and ocean acidification). This review analyzes the behaviors positively selected by evolution that render bacteria good models of sustainable practices (urgent in these times of climate change and scarcity of resources). Actually, bacteria display a tendency to optimize rather than maximize, to economize energy and building blocks (by using the same molecule for performing multiple functions), and to recycle and share metabolites, and these are winning strategies when dealing with sustainability. Furthermore, their ability to establish successful reciprocal relationships by means of anticipation, collective actions, and cooperation can also constitute an example highlighting how evolutionary selection favors behaviors that can be strategic to contain the present environmental crisis. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ocean acidification Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Frontiers in Microbiology 11 |
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Bacteria, the first organisms that appeared on Earth, continue to play a central role in ensuring life on the planet, both as biogeochemical agents and as higher organisms’ symbionts. In the last decades, they have been employed both as bioremediation agents for cleaning polluted sites and as bioconversion effectors for obtaining a variety of products from wastes (including eco-friendly plastics and green energies). However, some recent reports suggest that bacterial biodiversity can be negatively affected by the present environmental crisis (global warming, soil desertification, and ocean acidification). This review analyzes the behaviors positively selected by evolution that render bacteria good models of sustainable practices (urgent in these times of climate change and scarcity of resources). Actually, bacteria display a tendency to optimize rather than maximize, to economize energy and building blocks (by using the same molecule for performing multiple functions), and to recycle and share metabolites, and these are winning strategies when dealing with sustainability. Furthermore, their ability to establish successful reciprocal relationships by means of anticipation, collective actions, and cooperation can also constitute an example highlighting how evolutionary selection favors behaviors that can be strategic to contain the present environmental crisis. |
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The Less Expensive Choice: Bacterial Strategies to Achieve Successful and Sustainable Reciprocal Interactions |
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The Less Expensive Choice: Bacterial Strategies to Achieve Successful and Sustainable Reciprocal Interactions |
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The Less Expensive Choice: Bacterial Strategies to Achieve Successful and Sustainable Reciprocal Interactions |
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The Less Expensive Choice: Bacterial Strategies to Achieve Successful and Sustainable Reciprocal Interactions |
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The Less Expensive Choice: Bacterial Strategies to Achieve Successful and Sustainable Reciprocal Interactions |
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less expensive choice: bacterial strategies to achieve successful and sustainable reciprocal interactions |
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