Prevotella: A key player in ruminal metabolism

CL Betancur-Murillo, SB Aguilar-Marín, J Jovel - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Ruminants are foregut fermenters that have the remarkable ability of converting plant
polymers that are indigestible to humans into assimilable comestibles like meat and milk …

Fifty years of research on rumen methanogenesis: Lessons learned and future challenges for mitigation

KA Beauchemin, EM Ungerfeld, RJ Eckard, M Wang - Animal, 2020 - cambridge.org
Meat and milk from ruminants provide an important source of protein and other nutrients for
human consumption. Although ruminants have a unique advantage of being able to …

[HTML][HTML] Anaerobic digestion of lignocellulosic biomass: substrate characteristics (challenge) and innovation

CE Manyi-Loh, R Lues - Fermentation, 2023 - mdpi.com
Modern society is characterised by its outstanding capacity to generate waste.
Lignocellulosic biomass is most abundant in nature and is biorenewable and contains …

[HTML][HTML] Seaweed and seaweed bioactives for mitigation of enteric methane: Challenges and opportunities

DW Abbott, IM Aasen, KA Beauchemin, F Grondahl… - Animals, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The need to become more efficient in agriculture and the food industry
exists parallel to the challenge of climate change. Meat and dairy production is the target of …

Ruminal microbiome and microbial metabolome: effects of diet and ruminant host

CJ Newbold, E Ramos-Morales - Animal, 2020 - cambridge.org
The rumen contains a great diversity of prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms that
allow the ruminant to utilize ligno-cellulose material and to convert non-protein nitrogen into …

Understanding host-microbial interactions in rumen: searching the best opportunity for microbiota manipulation

N Malmuthuge, LL Guan - Journal of animal science and biotechnology, 2017 - Springer
Ruminants utilize a wide variety of dietary substrates that are not digestible by the mammals,
through microbial fermentation taking place in the rumen. Recent advanced molecular …

Rumen microbiome composition is altered in sheep divergent in feed efficiency

S McLoughlin, C Spillane, N Claffey, PE Smith… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Rumen microbiome composition and functionality is linked to animal feed efficiency,
particularly for bovine ruminants. To investigate this in sheep, we compared rumen bacterial …

Effect of dietary forage to concentrate ratios on dynamic profile changes and interactions of ruminal microbiota and metabolites in Holstein heifers

J Zhang, H Shi, Y Wang, S Li, Z Cao, S Ji… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
A better understanding of global ruminal microbiota and metabolites under extensive
feeding conditions is a prerequisite for optimizing rumen function and improving ruminant …

Metabolic influence of core ciliates within the rumen microbiome

TO Andersen, I Altshuler… - The ISME …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Protozoa comprise a major fraction of the microbial biomass in the rumen microbiome, of
which the entodiniomorphs (order: Entodiniomorphida) and holotrichs (order …

Rumen microbial degradation of bromoform from red seaweed (Asparagopsis taxiformis) and the impact on rumen fermentation and methanogenic archaea

P Romero, A Belanche, E Jiménez, R Hueso… - Journal of animal …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Background The red macroalgae Asparagopsis is an effective methanogenesis
inhibitor due to the presence of halogenated methane (CH4) analogues, primarily …