Unveiling the Bovine Epimural Microbiota Composition and Putative Function.

ABSTRACT: Numerous studies have used the 16S rRNA gene target in an attempt to characterize the structure and composition of the epimural microbiota in cattle. However, comparisons between studies are challenging, as the results show large variations associated with experimental protocols and bioinformatics methodologies. Here, we present a meta-analysis of the rumen epimural microbiota from 11 publicly available amplicon studies to assess key technical and biological sources of variation between experiments. Using the QIIME2 pipeline, 332 rumen epithelial microbiota samples were analyzed to investigate community structure, composition, and functional potential. Despite having a significant impact on microbial abundance, country of origin, farm, hypervariable region, primer set, animal variability,

SUBMITTER: Pacifico C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7915655 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature