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. 2020 Apr;62:137–145. doi: 10.1016/j.copbio.2019.09.015

Figure 1.

Figure 1

From monocultures to spatially linked microbial consortia.

Increase of spatial control of microbial cultures, starting with undifferentiated environments such as monocultures (a) co-cultures (b) and co-cultures with the addition of membranes to segregate interacting members of a microbial consortium (c), followed by a full segregation (SLMC) into interconnected modules offering different environments (d) and (e).