Redundancy, resilience, and host specificity of the ruminal microbiota: implications for engineering improved ruminal fermentations

PJ Weimer - Frontiers in microbiology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The ruminal microbial community is remarkably diverse, containing 100s of different
bacterial and archaeal species, plus many species of fungi and protozoa. Molecular studies …

Evolving understanding of rumen methanogen ecophysiology

BH Khairunisa, C Heryakusuma, K Ike… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Production of methane by methanogenic archaea, or methanogens, in the rumen of
ruminants is a thermodynamic necessity for microbial conversion of feed to volatile fatty …

A phylogenomic view of ecological specialization in the Lachnospiraceae, a family of digestive tract-associated bacteria

CJ Meehan, RG Beiko - Genome biology and evolution, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Several bacterial families are known to be highly abundant within the human microbiome,
but their ecological roles and evolutionary histories have yet to be investigated in depth. One …

Gut microbiota and blood metabolites related to fiber intake and type 2 diabetes

Z Wang, BA Peters, B Yu, ML Grove, T Wang… - Circulation …, 2024 - ahajournals.org
BACKGROUND: Consistent evidence suggests diabetes-protective effects of dietary fiber
intake. However, the underlying mechanisms, particularly the role of gut microbiota and host …

Metagenomic discovery of biomass-degrading genes and genomes from cow rumen

M Hess, A Sczyrba, R Egan, TW Kim, H Chokhawala… - Science, 2011 - science.org
The paucity of enzymes that efficiently deconstruct plant polysaccharides represents a major
bottleneck for industrial-scale conversion of cellulosic biomass into biofuels. Cow rumen …

On the evolution and physiology of cable bacteria

KU Kjeldsen, L Schreiber, CA Thorup, T Boesen… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - pnas.org
Cable bacteria of the family Desulfobulbaceae form centimeter-long filaments comprising
thousands of cells. They occur worldwide in the surface of aquatic sediments, where they …

A meta-analysis of the bovine gastrointestinal tract microbiota

DB Holman, KE Gzyl - FEMS microbiology ecology, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The bovine gastrointestinal (GI) tract microbiota has important influences on animal health
and production. Presently, a large number of studies have used high-throughput sequencing …

Rumen microbial (meta) genomics and its application to ruminant production

DP Morgavi, WJ Kelly, PH Janssen, GT Attwood - animal, 2013 - cambridge.org
Meat and milk produced by ruminants are important agricultural products and are major
sources of protein for humans. Ruminant production is of considerable economic value and …

Microbial ecology of the rumen evaluated by 454 GS FLX pyrosequencing is affected by starch and oil supplementation of diets

Z Asma, C Sylvie, C Laurent, M Jérôme… - FEMS microbiology …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
To provide a comprehensive examination of the bacterial diversity in the rumen content of
cows fed different diets, high-throughput 16S rRNA gene-based pyrosequencing was used …

The Complete Genome Sequence of Fibrobacter succinogenes S85 Reveals a Cellulolytic and Metabolic Specialist

G Suen, PJ Weimer, DM Stevenson, FO Aylward… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Fibrobacter succinogenes is an important member of the rumen microbial community that
converts plant biomass into nutrients usable by its host. This bacterium, which is also one of …