Table 1.

Commensal microbiota library.

Phyla	Bacteria	Strain∗	Description	Nucleotide accession no.
				(complete genome)/Reference
Bacteroidetes	Bacteroides fragilis	NCTC 9343	Type strain, appendix abscess	GenBank, CR626927
Bacteroidetes	Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron	VPI-5482	Type strain, human feces	Xu et al., 2003
Firmicutes	Lactobacillus acidophilus	ATCC 700396/NCFM	Infant feces	Altermann et al., 2005
Firmicutes	Lactobacillus gasseri	ATCC 33323	Type strain	GenBank, CP000413
Firmicutes	Clostridium scindens	ATCC 35704	Type strain, human feces	GenBank, ABFY02000000
Firmicutes	Clostridium hylemonae	TN-271	Type strain, human feces	GenBank, AB023972∗∗
Proteobacteria	Escherichia coli	ATCC BAA 2649	Not type strain
Actinobacteria	Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis	DSM 20090	Intestine of infants	Mattarelli et al., 2008

^∗ATCC, American Type Culture Collection; NCTC, National Collection of Type Cultures; DSM, Leibniz-Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures.

^∗∗16S rRNA, partial sequence.