Background
In large scale dairy farming systems, maintaining stable milk yield post-lactation peak is crucial for dairy farms’ economic benefits. While sufficient evidence shows the microbiota profoundly impacts host production efficiency, the specific mechanisms by which hindgut microbiota...
Shotgun metagenomics, untargeted metabolomics, and targeted metabolomics of high versus normal-yield cows revealed that high-yield animals harbored distinct hindgut microbial communities enriched in bile salt hydrolase–positive taxa, and elevated levels of deoxycholic acid (DCA). Fecal microbiota...