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Automated anaerobic cultivation and phenotyping of diverse chain-elongating bacteria

Anaerobic bacteria perform diverse metabolic functions with considerable biotechnological potential, yet their physiology remains poorly characterized because conventional anaerobic cultivation is low throughput. Here, we developed a Platform for Automated Cultivation of Microbial Anaerobes (PACMAN) and applied it to systematically characterize the physiology of diverse chain-elongating bacteria…

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