PLOS Biology<p>What is the role of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) in carbon exchange among microbial species? This study shows that <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/EPS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EPS</span></a>, formed via <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/chitin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chitin</span></a> degradation, drives <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/MicrobialDiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MicrobialDiversity</span></a> by acting as a sequentially degraded <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/CarbonSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CarbonSource</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@PLOSBiology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>PLOSBiology</span></a></span> <a href="https://plos.io/3J9kbuu" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">plos.io/3J9kbuu</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>