Why does the establishment of the starch preferring Entodinium caudatum in the rumen decrease the numbers of the fibrolytic ciliate Eudiplodinium maggii?

Folia Microbiologica

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 139-142

  Belzecki G ^a   Miltko, R ^a   Michalowski T ^a  

^a KIELANOWSKI INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY AND NUTRITION   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CILIOPHORA; ENTODINIUM CAUDATUM; EUDIPLODINIUM MAGGII; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 2542530124     PISSN: 00155632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02931388     Document Type: Conference Paper

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