Michael Gänzle

IntroductionLactobacillus reuteri is a host-specific intestinal symbiont of humans and vertebrate animals (Walter, 2008; Frese et al., 2011). L. reuteri is commercially applied in cereal fermentations (Brandt, 2014) and as probiotic culture (Tuohy et al., 2003). Strain- or lineage specific metabolic traits of L. reuteri mediate host-specific colonization (Frese et al., 2014; Wilson et al., 2014), ...