Fig. 3: Metabolite exchanges with consortium partners allowing single-species MCSs to recover growth on the consortium model, according to consortium MCSs of size up to 8, found in a 1.5 days time span.

a Number of MCSs of P. aeruginosa nullified by extracellular metabolite import from S. aureus, b Number of MCSs of S. aureus nullified by extracellular metabolite import from P. aeruginosa. Acgam acetylglucosamine, d deoxy.