Improved in vitro procedure for maintaining stock cultures of three genera of rumen protozoa

Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1395-1401

  Dehority, B A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Enoploplastron triloricatum; Entodinium caudatum; Entodinium exiguum; Epidinium caudatum; In vitro culture; Rumen protozoa; Streptomycin

Indexed keywords

STREPTOMYCIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CATTLE; CILIATE; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DRUG EFFECT; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PH; RUMINANT STOMACH; TIME;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CATTLE; CILIOPHORA; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FOOD DEPRIVATION; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; RUMEN; STREPTOMYCIN; TIME FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DACTYLIS; ENTODINIUM CAUDATUM; ENTODINIUM EXIGUUM; EPIDINIUM CAUDATUM; PROTOZOA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 45549098436     PISSN: 00218812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/jas.2007-0238     Document Type: Article

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