An in vitro evaluation of browser and grazer fermentation efficiency and microbiota using European moose spring and summer foods.

ABSTRACT: Evolutionary morphological and physiological differences between browsers and grazers contribute to species-specific digestion efficiency of food resources. Rumen microbial community structure of browsers is supposedly adapted to characteristic nutrient composition of the diet source. If this assumption is correct, domesticated ruminants, or grazers, are poor model animals for assessing the nutritional value of food consumed by browsing game species. In this study, typical spring and summer foods of the European moose (Alces alces) were combined with rumen fluid collected from both dairy cows (Bos taurus) and from moose, with the aim of comparing fermentation efficiency and microbial community composition. The nutritional value of the food resources was characterized by chemi

SUBMITTER: Krizsan SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5916270 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature