Experiments and simulations on short chain fatty acid production in a colonic bacterial community
Bea Yu, Ilija Dukovski, David Sun Kong, Johanna Bobrow, Alla Ostrinskaya, Daniel Segrè, Todd Thorsen
This paper investigates butyrate production by F. prausnitzii and B. thetaiotaomicron in monoculture and coculture using experiments and simulations, finding enhanced butyrate production in coculture and complex metabolic strategies.
bioRxiv · Oct 16, 2018 · PreprintSystems Biology