This live-bacterial cell imaging protocol allows for visualization of interactions between multiple bacterial species at the single-cell level over time. Time-lapse imaging allows for observation of each bacterial species in monoculture or coculture to interrogate interspecies interactions in multispecies bacterial communities, including individual cell motility and viability.
Yarrington, K. D., Sánchez Peña, A., Limoli, D. H. Kinetic Visualization of Single-Cell Interspecies Bacterial Interactions. J. Vis. Exp. (162), e61376, doi:10.3791/61376 (2020).