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. 2007 Feb 6;104(6):1741-2.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.0611067104. Epub 2007 Jan 31.

Synthetic ecology: a model system for cooperation

Maitreya J Dunham  1
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Synthetic ecology: a model system for cooperation

Maitreya J Dunham. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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The author declares no conflict of interest.

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Fig. 1.
The CoSMO universe: an obligate cooperative synthetic ecosystem composed of one strain of yeast, marked with YFP (yellow outline), that requires lysine and overproduces adenine, and another marked with DsRed (red outline) that overproduces lysine and requires adenine. Both strains are necessary for a viable system.
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