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. 2016 Apr 1;10(11):2725–2733. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2016.49

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Numerical simulation showing the effect of substrate affinity (parameter K in Equation 2) and free energy values on the steady-state biomass composition. The colour mapping indicates biomass of species X₂ as fraction of total biomass. The y axis shows the K₁ of species X₁, while K₂ for species X₂ is fixed at 10 × 10⁻⁶. The x axis shows the free energy of metabolic conversion reaction for species X₁, while that of species X₂ is always set to be 5 kJ (mol Substrate)⁻¹ lower (i.e, thermodynamically more favourable) than that for species X₁.

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