Influence of interspecies interactions on the spatial organization of dual species bacterial communities.

ABSTRACT: Interspecies interactions in bacterial biofilms have important impacts on the composition and function of communities in natural and engineered systems. To investigate these interactions, synthetic communities provide experimentally tractable systems. Biofilms grown on agar-surfaces have been used for investigating the eco-evolutionary and biophysical forces that determine community composition and spatial distribution of bacteria. Prior studies have used genetically identical bacterial strains and strains with specific mutations, that express different fluorescent proteins, to investigate intraspecies interactions. Here, we investigated interspecies interactions and, specifically, determined the community composition and spatial distribution in synthetic communities of Pseudomonas aeru

SUBMITTER: Booth SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7798468 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature