Synthetic microbial consortia have been increasingly utilized in biotechnology and experimental evidence shows that suitably engineered consortia can outperform individual species in the synthesis of
Multi-step substrate consumption pathways are ubiquitous and can promote biodiversity within microbial communities. If one cell-type preferentially consumes a primary substrate over the subsequently f
Synthetic communities assembled in the laboratory of species originating from the same study site, from very simple (two-species) to rather complex (50-species) synthetic communities. We observe some