Engineering microbial consortia to enhance biomining and bioremediation

In natural environments microorganisms commonly exist as communities of multiple species that are capable of performing more varied and complicated tasks than clonal populations. Synthetic biologists have engineered clonal populations with characteristics such as differentiation, memory and pattern...

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Main Authors: Karl Dietrich Brune, Travis eBayer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2012.00203/full