Department of Biology, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA.
FAS Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Cell. 2015 Mar 26;161(1):49-55. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.02.034.
Microbial communities of fermented foods have provided humans with tools for preservation and flavor development for thousands of years. These simple, reproducible, accessible, culturable, and easy-to-manipulate systems also provide opportunities for dissecting the mechanisms of microbial community formation. Fermented foods can be valuable models for processes in less tractable microbiota.
发酵食品中的微生物群落为人类提供了数千年来保存和开发风味的工具。这些简单、可重复、可及、可培养且易于操作的系统也为剖析微生物群落形成的机制提供了机会。发酵食品可以作为研究更难处理的微生物群落过程的有价值模型。