Abstract
Synthetic communities can be used as model systems for the molecular examination of species interactions. Manipulating synthetic communities to create novel beneficial interactions provides insight into the mechanisms of cooperation as well as the potential to improve the productivity of industrially relevant systems. Here, we present a general scheme for evolving a mutualism from a bacterial consortium in which one species consumes the by-products of another.
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Chubiz, L., Douglas, S., Harcombe, W. (2014). Combining Engineering and Evolution to Create Novel Metabolic Mutualisms Between Species. In: Sun, L., Shou, W. (eds) Engineering and Analyzing Multicellular Systems. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1151. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0554-6_3
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