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The use of chemostat or continuous cultures to study a microorganism at the steady state provides a rigorous experimental approach for the quantitative evaluation of the microorganism’s physiology and metabolism. In addition, chemostat cultures allow definition of the phase of behaviour which suits a purpose that we may fix ourselves — for example, maximum substrate consumption and output fluxes of metabolic by-products of interest.
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© 1997 M.A. Aon and S. Cortassa
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Aon, M.A., Cortassa, S. (1997). About the dynamic behaviour of microorganisms. In: Dynamic Biological Organization. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5828-2_8
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