Connecting the ruminant microbiome to climate change: insights from current ecological and evolutionary concepts.

ABSTRACT: Ruminant livestock provide meat, milk, wool, and other products required for human subsistence. Within the digestive tract of ruminant animals, the rumen houses a complex and diverse microbial ecosystem. These microbes generate many of the nutrients that are needed by the host animal for maintenance and production. However, enteric methane (CH₄) is also produced during the final stage of anaerobic digestion. Growing public concern for global climate change has driven the agriculture sector to enhance its investigation into CH₄ mitigation. Many CH₄ mitigation methods have been explored, with varying outcomes. With the advent of new sequencing technologies, the host-microbe interactions that mediate fermentation processes have been examined to enhance ruminan

SUBMITTER: Frazier AN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11646987 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature