Competition for cellulose among three predominant ruminal cellulolytic bacteria under substrate-excess and substrate-limited conditions

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 734-742

  Shi, Yan ^a   Odt, Christine L ^b   Weimer, Paul J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b U S DAIRY FORAGE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE; CELLOBIOSE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; DEPOLYMERIZATION; DIGESTION; FERMENTATION; GLUCOSE UTILIZATION; HYDROLYSIS; NONHUMAN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; RUMINANT STOMACH; CELL POPULATION; CYTOLYSIS; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; PLANKTON;

ANIMALS; BACTEROIDES; CELLOBIOSE; CELLULOSE; CULTURE MEDIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; RUMEN;

EID: 0030980044     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.2.734-742.1997     Document Type: Article

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