Identification of Ruminococcus flavefaciens as the predominant cellulolytic bacterial species of the equine cecum

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 3738-3741

  Julliand, Veronique ^a   De Vaux, Albane ^a   Millet, Liliane ^b   Fonty, Gerard ^b  

^a Lab Associe Rech Zootechniques I   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; CELLOBIOSE; CELLULOSE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CECUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONKEY; HORSE; NONHUMAN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; RUMINOCOCCUS;

FIBROBACTER SUCCINOGENES; RUMINOCOCCUS ALBUS; RUMINOCOCCUS FLAVEFACIENS;

EID: 0032771478     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.8.3738-3741.1999     Document Type: Article

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