Co-culture of bacterial cells engineered with quorum-sensing and self-lysis circuits allows coupled oscillatory dynamics and stable states, opening the way to engineered microbial ecosystems with targeted dynamics and extending gene circuits to the ecosystem level.
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Jaramillo, A. Synthetic biology: Engineered stable ecosystems. Nat Microbiol 2, 17119 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmicrobiol.2017.119
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