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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Findley SD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3209001 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Applied and environmental microbiology 20110923 22
The rumen, the foregut of herbivorous ruminant animals such as cattle, functions as a bioreactor to process complex plant material. Among the numerous and diverse microbes involved in ruminal digestion are the ruminal protozoans, which are single-celled, ciliated eukaryotic organisms. An activity-based screen was executed to identify genes encoding fibrolytic enzymes present in the metatranscriptome of a bovine ruminal protozoan-enriched cDNA expression library. Of the four novel genes identifie ...[more]