Yuji Tsujikawa, Keita Nishiyama, Fu Namai, Yoshiya Imamura, Taiga Sakuma, Sudeb Saha, Masahiko Suzuki, Mitsuki Sakurai, Ryo Iwata, Kengo Matsuo, Hironori Takamori, Yoshihito Suda, Binghui Zhou, Itsuko Fukuda, Julio Villena, Iwao Sakane, Ro Osawa, Haruki Kitazawa
Sustainable livestock production requires reducing competition for food and feed resources and increasing the utilization of food by-products in livestock feed. This study describes the establishment of an anaerobic batch culture model to simulate pig microbiota and evaluate the effects of a food by-product, wakame seaweed stalks, on ex vivo microbial communities. We selected one of the nine media to support the growth of a bacterial community most similar in composition and diversity to that observed in pig donor feces...
2024: Bioscience of Microbiota, Food and Health