Revival of Synechococcus health and the re-establishment of the Synechococcus-heterotrophic bacterial mutualism (IMAGE)

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Revival of Synechococcus health and the re-establishment of the Synechococcus-heterotrophic bacterial mutualism

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(A) Illustration showing the experimental setup. Exogenous nutrients were added to an existing Synechococcus-heterotrophic bacterial mutualistic coculture system and Synechococcus growth was monitored for 450 days. The timescale below the culture flasks illustrates the start and end of each phase with their corresponding observed (visually) color change. (B) Real-time visual color change within the coculture system and in the axenic Synechococcus sp. PCC7002 culture.

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Shailesh Nair

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