RESEARCH ARTICLE
Bacterial Concentration and Diversity within Repetitive Aliquots Collected from Replicate Continuous-Flow Bioreactor Cultures
Tawni L Crippen*, 1, Cynthia L Sheffield1, Kathleen Andrews1, Roy Bongaerts2, David J Nisbet1
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2008Volume: 2
First Page: 60
Last Page: 65
Publisher ID: TOMICROJ-2-60
DOI: 10.2174/1874285800802010060
Article History:
Received Date: 20/4/2008Revision Received Date: 28/4/2008
Acceptance Date: 2/5/2008
Electronic publication date: 23/5/2008
Collection year: 2008

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Abstract
The aim of this study was to determine the reproducibility of small volume repeat sampling from replicate bioreactors with stabilized continuous-flow chicken cecal bacterial communities. Bacterial concentration and diversity were analyzed by phenotypic, biochemical and ribotype analysis. Significant differences in concentrations and variations in diversity were found in replicate bioreactors.