Bacterial populations and metabolites in the feces of free roaming and captive grizzly bears

Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1335-1346

  Schwab, Clarissa ^a   Cristescu, Bogdan ^a   Boyce, Mark S ^a   Stenhouse, Gordon B ^b   Gänzle, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Foothills Research Institute   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carnivore; Fecal microflora; Gut physiology; SCFA; Ursus arctos horribilis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COMPOSITION; BACTERIAL POPULATION; BACTEROIDES; CARNIVORE; CLOSTRIDIUM COCCOIDES; DATA SETS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FACULTATIVE ANAEROBES; FECAL MICROBIOTA; GRIZZLY BEAR; MICROBIAL ACTIVITIES; MICROBIOTAS; MICROFLORA; PREVOTELLA; SHORT-CHAIN FATTY ACIDS; WILD ANIMALS;

BACTERIOLOGY; FATTY ACIDS; MAMMALS; METABOLISM; METABOLITES; NUTRITION;

ECOLOGY;

LACTIC ACID; SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACID;

BACTERIUM; BEAR; CAPTIVE POPULATION; DIGESTION; FATTY ACID; FECES; GENE EXPRESSION; METABOLITE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; WILD POPULATION;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTEROIDES; BEAR; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM COCCOIDES; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROCOCCUS; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES CULTURE; FECES MICROFLORA; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; INTESTINE FLORA; MALE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PORPHYROMONAS; PREVOTELLA; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; BACTERIA; CANADA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DIET; DIGESTION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FATTY ACIDS, VOLATILE; FECES; FEMALE; INTESTINES; LACTIC ACID; MALE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; URSIDAE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; CARNIVORA; CLOSTRIDIUM COCCOIDES; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; PORPHYROMONAS; PREVOTELLA; URSUS ARCTOS; URSUS ARCTOS HORRIBILIS;

EID: 74549164960     PISSN: 00084166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/W09-083     Document Type: Article

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