NEW(ISH) paper from me, @elzehesse.bsky.socialwww.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Here we characterise a stable 5-species community that we created by disassembling a start community of 46 isolates and seeing what could stick together at the end. We then experimentally checked that all species could coexist and found that the five species can be cultured together for >1 year!