Table 1.

Streptomyces co-cultures involved in antibiotic production.

Co-cultured species	Effects	References
Streptomyces coelicolor–five actinomycetes	Production of multiple cryptic compounds and antibiotics (i.e., prodiginines and actinorhodines)	Traxler et al., 2013
Combinations of 76 Streptomyces spp.	Stimulation of various antibiotics	Ueda et al., 2000
Streptomyces coelicolor–Bacillus subtilis	Increase of undecylprodigiosin production. Earlier onset of production	Luti and Mavituna, 2011
Streptomyces spp.–Tsukamurella pulmonis	Production of novel antibiotics (i.e., alchivemycin A by S. endus)	Onaka et al., 2011
Streptomyces coelicolor–Myxococcus xanthus	Increase of actinorhodin production in S. coelicolor	Pérez et al., 2011
Streptomyces clavuligerus–Staphylococcus aureus	Production of holomycin	Charusanti et al., 2012
Streptomyces cinnabarinus–Alteromonas sp.	Induction of lobocompactol production	Cho and Kim, 2012
Streptomyces sp. Mg1–Bacillus subtilis	Production of chalcomycin A	Barger et al., 2012
Streptomyces sp.–Proteobacteria	Production of the antibiotic resistomycin	Carlson et al., 2015
Streptomyces coelicolor–Corallococcus coralloides	Increase of antibiotic production of undecylprodigiosin and earlier onset	Schäberle et al., 2014
Streptomyces fradiae 007–Penicillium sp. WC-29-5	Production of four aromatic polyketides	Wang et al., 2014b
Streptomyces lividans–Bacillus subtilis	Induction of prodiginine production	Vargas-Bautista et al., 2014
Streptomyces lividans–Verticillium dahliae	Increase of antibiotic production of prodiginines	Meschke et al., 2012