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Genome Biology, 2020 Background The Boran (Bos indicus), indigenous Zebu cattle breed from sub-Saharan Africa, is remarkably well adapted to harsh tropical environments. Due to financial constraints and low-quality forage, African livestock are rarely fed at 100% maintenance
Toby Wilkinson +7 more
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Microbiome, 2023 Background The increased growth rate of young animals can lead to higher lactation performance in adult goats; however, the effects of the ruminal microbiome on the growth of young goats, and the contribution of the early-life rumen microbiome to ...
Dangdang Wang +11 more
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Host genetics and the rumen microbiome jointly associate with methane emissions in dairy cows. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2018 Cattle and other ruminants produce large quantities of methane (~110 million metric tonnes per annum), which is a potent greenhouse gas affecting global climate change.
Gareth Frank Difford +11 more
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Rumen biogeographical regions and their impact on microbial and metabolome variation
Frontiers in Animal Science, 2023 The rumen microbiome is a complex microbial network critical to the health and nutrition of its host, due to their inherent ability to convert low-quality feedstuffs into energy.
Macey P. Soltis +13 more
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Mobile Genetic Elements, 2012 Plasmids are episomally replicating genetic elements which carry backbone genes that are important for their replication and maintenance within their host, and accessory genes that might confer an advantage to their host in its ecological niche. As such, they are often perceived as a powerful evolutionary force, which horizontally introduces new traits
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The giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) rumen microbiome [PDF]
FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 2014 Recent studies have shown that wild ruminants are sources of previously undescribed microorganisms, knowledge of which can improve our understanding of the complex microbial interactions in the foregut. Here, we investigated the microbial community of seven wild-caught giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis), three of which were fed natural browse and four ...
Roggenbuck, Michael +4 more
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Sample Processing Methods Impacts on Rumen Microbiome [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019 The standardization of collection and processing methods for rumen samples is crucial to reduce the level of errors that may affect the analysis and interpretation of the data. The aim of this study was to compare two processing methods and their impacts on the microbial community composition analysis, from material that was either immediately frozen ...
Gonzalo Martinez-Fernandez +2 more
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Modulation of the rumen microbiome
Microbiology Australia, 2015 A combination of animal genetics and the unique, enlarged fore-stomach of ruminants (rumen) enable domesticated ruminants to be sustained on forages and fibrous feedstuffs that would be otherwise indigestible. Ruminants can also utilise more easily digestible, high energy plant material such as grain, to achieve rapid increases in weight gain, muscle ...
Gilbert, Rosalind +2 more
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Microbiome, 2020 Background Recently, we reported that some dairy cows could produce high amounts of milk with high amounts of protein (defined as milk protein yield [MPY]) when a population was raised under the same nutritional and management condition, a potential new ...
Ming-Yuan Xue +4 more
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Interrogating the viral dark matter of the rumen ecosystem with a global virome database
Nature Communications, 2023 The diverse rumen virome can modulate the rumen microbiome, but it remains largely unexplored. Here, we mine 975 published rumen metagenomes for viral sequences, create a global rumen virome database (RVD), and analyze the rumen virome for diversity ...
Ming Yan +6 more
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