A new, publicly available, collection of cultured bacterial species from the mouse gut, the Mouse Intestinal Bacterial Collection, opens up opportunities for deepening microbiome research. Cultured isolates allow the functions of specific species and controlled consortia to be determined through in vitro experimentation.
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Marotz, C., Knight, R. Culturing: Looking it up in our gut. Nat Microbiol 1, 16169 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.169
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