Applying the restaurant hypothesis to intestinal microbiota: Anaerobes in mixed biofilms degrade polysaccharides, sharing locally prepared sugars with facultative anaerobes that also colonize the intestine

Microbe

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 324-328

  Conway, Tyrrell ^a   Cohen, Paul S ^b  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

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EID: 84942253830     PISSN: 15587452     EISSN: 15587460     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/microbe.10.324.1     Document Type: Article

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