Combining engineering and evolution to create novel metabolic mutualisms between species

Lon Chubiz; Sarah Douglas; William Harcombe

doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-0554-6_3

Combining engineering and evolution to create novel metabolic mutualisms between species

Lon Chubiz, Sarah Douglas, William Harcombe

Ecology, Evolution and Behavior

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	39-47
Number of pages	9
Journal	Methods in Molecular Biology
Volume	1151
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0554-6_3
State	Published - Jan 1 2014

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Consortia
Cooperation
Cross-feeding
Evolution
Synthetic ecology

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