An rRNA approach for assessing the role of obligate amino acid-fermenting bacteria in ruminal amino acid deamination

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 815-821

  Krause, Denis O ^a   Russell, James B ^a,b  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AMMONIA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBOHYDRATE; FATTY ACID; MONENSIN; NITROGEN; RIBOSOME RNA; TRYPTICASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CLOSTRIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; DEAMINATION; FERMENTATION; NONHUMAN; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCUS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RUMINANT STOMACH;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS TAURUS; CLOSTRIDIUM AMINOPHILUM; CLOSTRIDIUM STICKLANDII; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCUS ANAEROBIUS;

EID: 0029864203     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.3.815-821.1996     Document Type: Article

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