The rumen microbiome: balancing food security and environmental impacts

I Mizrahi, RJ Wallace, S Moraïs - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2021 - nature.com
Ruminants produce edible products and contribute to food security. They house a complex
rumen microbial community that enables the host to digest their plant feed through microbial …

Addressing global ruminant agricultural challenges through understanding the rumen microbiome: past, present, and future

SA Huws, CJ Creevey, LB Oyama, I Mizrahi… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The rumen is a complex ecosystem composed of anaerobic bacteria, protozoa, fungi,
methanogenic archaea and phages. These microbes interact closely to breakdown plant …

The role of the gut microbiome in cattle production and health: driver or passenger?

E O'Hara, ALA Neves, Y Song… - Annual review of animal …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Ruminant production systems face significant challenges currently, driven by heightened
awareness of their negative environmental impact and the rapidly rising global population …

Metagenomic analysis reveals a dynamic microbiome with diversified adaptive functions to utilize high lignocellulosic forages in the cattle rumen

J Gharechahi, MF Vahidi, M Bahram, JL Han… - The ISME …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Rumen microbiota play a key role in the digestion and utilization of plant materials by the
ruminant species, which have important implications for greenhouse gas emission. Yet, little …

CowPI: a rumen microbiome focussed version of the PICRUSt functional inference software

TJ Wilkinson, SA Huws, JE Edwards… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Metataxonomic 16S rDNA based studies are a commonplace and useful tool in the research
of the microbiome, but they do not provide the full investigative power of metagenomics and …

Islands in the stream: from individual to communal fiber degradation in the rumen ecosystem

S Moraïs, I Mizrahi - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The herbivore rumen ecosystem constitutes an extremely efficient degradation machinery for
the intricate chemical structure of fiber biomass, thus, enabling the hosting animal to digest …

Effects of Dietary Energy Levels on Rumen Fermentation, Microbial Diversity, and Feed Efficiency of Yaks (Bos grunniens)

AA Ahmad, C Yang, J Zhang, Q Kalwar… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The microbial community of the yak (Bos grunniens) rumen plays an important role in
surviving the harsh Tibetan environment where seasonal dynamic changes in pasture cause …

Invited review: Application of meta-omics to understand the dynamic nature of the rumen microbiome and how it responds to diet in ruminants

RJ Gruninger, GO Ribeiro, A Cameron, TA McAllister - Animal, 2019 - cambridge.org
Ruminants are unique among livestock due to their ability to efficiently convert plant cell wall
carbohydrates into meat and milk. This ability is a result of the evolution of an essential …

Evidence for assimilatory nitrate reduction as a previously overlooked pathway of reactive nitrogen transformation in estuarine suspended particulate matter

R Hu, S Liu, W Huang, Q Nan, PJ Strong… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Suspended particulate matter (SPM) contributes to the loss of reactive nitrogen (Nr) in
estuarine ecosystems. Although denitrification and anaerobic ammonium oxidation in SPM …

Functional and phylogenetic analyses of camel rumen microbiota associated with different lignocellulosic substrates

J Gharechahi, S Sarikhan, JL Han, XZ Ding… - npj Biofilms and …, 2022 - nature.com
Rumen microbiota facilitates nutrition through digestion of recalcitrant lignocellulosic
substrates into energy-accessible nutrients and essential metabolites. Despite the high …