Assessment of microbiome changes after rumen transfaunation: implications on improving feed efficiency in beef cattle.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding the host impact on its symbiotic microbiota is important in redirecting the rumen microbiota and thus improving animal performance. The current study aimed to understand how rumen microbiota were altered and re-established after being emptied and receiving content from donor, thus to understand the impact of such process on rumen microbial fermentation and to explore the microbial phylotypes with higher manipulation potentials.

Results

Individual animal had strong effect on the re-establishment of the bacterial community according to the observed profiles detected by both fingerprinting and pyrosequencing. Most of the bacterial profile recovery patterns and extents at genus level varied among steers; and each identified bacterial genus responded to t

SUBMITTER: Zhou M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5869788 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature