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in the face of being able to derive specific complex nutrients from their environment instead of having to synthesize it directly. For this reason, many microbes have developed complex nutritional requirements that have prevented their cultivation in laboratory conditions. This highly dependent state of many microbes on other organisms is similar to how parasites undergo significant simplification when a large variety of their nutritional needs are available from their hosts. J. Jeffrey Morris and coauthors explained this through the "Black Queen Hypothesis".

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