Biofilm cultivation facilitates coexistence and adaptive evolution in an industrial bacterial community.

ABSTRACT: The majority of ecological, industrial and medical impacts of bacteria result from diverse communities containing multiple species. This diversity presents a significant challenge as co-cultivation of multiple bacterial species frequently leads to species being outcompeted and, with this, the possibility to manipulate, evolve and improve bacterial communities is lost. Ecological theory predicts that a solution to this problem will be to grow species in structured environments, which reduces the likelihood of competitive exclusion. Here, we explored the ability of cultivation in a structured environment to facilitate coexistence, evolution, and adaptation in an industrially important community: Lactococcus lactis and Leuconostoc mesenteroides frequently used as dairy starter cultures. As co

SUBMITTER: Henriksen NNSE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9300721 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature