Differences in the rumen methanogen populations of lactating Jersey and holstein dairy cows under the same diet regimen

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 5682-5687

  King, Erin E ^a   Smith, Rachel P ^a   St Pierre, Benoit ^a   Wright, André Denis G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; BODY SIZES; DAIRY CATTLES; DAIRY COW; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; JERSEY COWS; LIBRARY SEQUENCES; METHANE EMISSIONS; METHANOGENIC ARCHAEA; MILK COMPOSITION; MILK PRODUCTION; OPERATIONAL TAXONOMIC UNITS; PCR PRODUCTS; POPULATION STRUCTURES; POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE; SEQUENCE IDENTITY;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLONING; DAIRIES; GENES; LIBRARIES; METHANE; NUTRITION; RNA;

METHANOGENS;

BACTERIAL DNA; METHANE; RNA 16S;

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; BACTERIUM; BODY SIZE; CATTLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DAIRY FARMING; DIET; EMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; METHANE; METHANOGENESIS; MILK PRODUCTION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOTA; CATTLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LACTATION; METABOLISM; METHANOBREVIBACTER; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR COMPUTER; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RUMINANT STOMACH; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BIOTA; CATTLE; COMPUTERS, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENE LIBRARY; LACTATION; METHANE; METHANOBREVIBACTER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RUMEN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALIA; BOS; METHANOBREVIBACTER; METHANOBREVIBACTER RUMINANTIUM; METHANOSPHAERA; OTUS; UNCULTURED METHANOGENIC ARCHAEON;

EID: 80052632056     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.05130-11     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Altschul, S. F., et al. 1997. Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programs. Nucleic Acids Res. 25:3389-3402.
2. An, D., X. Dong, and Z. Dong. 2005. Prokaryote diversity in the rumen of yak (Bos grunniens) and Jinnan cattle (Bos taurus) estimated by 16S rDNA homology analyses. Anaerobe 11:207-215.
3. Chaudhary, P. P., and S. K. Sirohi. 2009. Dominance of Methanomicrobium phylotype in methanogen population present in Murrah buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis). Lett. Appl. Microbiol. 49:274-277.
4. Evans, P. N., et al. 2009. Community composition and density of methanogens in the foregut of the Tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii). Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 75:2598-2602.
5. Felsenstein, J. 2006. PHYLIP (Phylogeny Inference Package) documentation files, version 3.66. Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
6. Hook, S. E., A.-D. G. Wright, and B. W. McBride. 2010. Methanogens: methane producers of the rumen and mitigation strategies. Archaea 2010: 1-11.
7. Hook, S. E., K. S. Northwood, A.-D. G. Wright, and B. W. McBride. 2009. Long-term monensin supplementation does not significantly affect the quantity or diversity of methanogens in the rumen of the lactating dairy cow. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 75:374-380.
8. Jeyanathan, J., M. Kirs, R. S. Ronimus, S. O. Hoskin, and P. H. Janssen. 2011. Methanogen community structure in the rumens of farmed sheep, cattle and red deer fed different diets. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. doi:10.1111/j.1574-6941.2011.01056.x.
9. Johnson, K. A., and D. E. Johnson. 1995. Methane emissions from cattle. J. Anim. Sci. 73:2483-2492.
10. Kim, M., M. Morrison, and Z. Yu. 2011. Status of the phylogenetic diversity census of ruminal microbiomes. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 76:49-63.
11. Kimura, M. 1980. A simple method for estimating evolutionary rates of base substitutions through comparative studies of nucleotide sequences. J. Mol. Evol. 16:111-120.
12. Lassen, J., P. Lovendahl, and J. Madsen. 2010. Experiences with large scale individual measurements of methane emission in dairy cattle using a Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) measuring unit, paper 247. In CD communication proceedings. Gesellschaft für Tierzuchtwissenschaften, Giessen, Germany.
13. Mackle, T. R., C. R. Parr, G. K. Stakelum, A. M. Bryant, and K. L. Macmillan. 1996. Feed conversion efficiency, daily pasture intake, and milk production of primiparous Friesian and Jersey cows calved at two different liveweights. N. Z. J. Agric. Res. 39:357-370.
14. Münger, A., and M. Kreuzer. 2006. Methane emission as determined in contrasting dairy cattle breeds over the reproduction cycle. Int. Cong. Ser. 1293:119-122.
15. Münger, A., and M. Kreuzer. 2007. Absence of persistent methane emission differences in three breeds of dairy cows. Aust. J. Exp. Agric. 48:77-82.
16. Murray, R. M., A. M. Byrant, and R. A. Leng. 1976. Rates of production of methane in the rumen and large intestine in sheep. Br. J. Nutr. 36:1-14.
17. Oldenbroek, J. K. 1988. The performance of Jersey cows and cows of larger dairy breeds on two complete diets with different roughage contents. Livestock Prod. Sci. 18:1-17.
18. Prendiville, R., K. M. Pierce, and F. Buckley. 2009. An evaluation of production efficiencies among lactating Holstein-Friesian, Jersey, and Jersey × Holstein-Friesian cows at pasture. J. Dairy Sci. 92:6176-6185.
19. Prendiville, R., K. M. Pierce, L. Delaby, and F. Buckley. 6 January 2011, posting date. Animal performance and production efficiencies of Holstein-Friesian, Jersey and Jersey × Holstein-Friesian cows throughout lactation. Livestock Sci. doi:10.1016/j.livsci.2010.11.023.
20. Rea, S., J. P. Bowman, S. Popovski, C. Pimm, and A.-D. G. Wright. 2007. Methanobrevibacter millerae sp. nov. and Methanobrevibacter olleyae sp. nov., methanogens from the ovine and bovine rumen that can utilize formate for growth. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 57:450-456.
21. Saitou, N., and M. Nei. 1987. The neighbor-joining method: a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees. Mol. Biol. Evol. 4:406-425.
22. Schloss, P. D., et al. 2009. Introducing mothur: open-source, platform-independent, community-supported software for describing and comparing microbial communities. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 75:7537-7541.
23. Skillman, L. C., P. N. Evans, C. Strompl, and K. N. Joblin. 2006. 16S rDNA directed PCR primers and detection of methanogens in the bovine rumen. Lett. Appl. Microbiol. 42:222-228.
24. Sundset, M. A., et al. 2009. Rumen microbial diversity in Svalbard reindeer, with particular emphasis on methanogenic archaea. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 70:553-562.
25. Thorpe, A. 2008. Enteric fermentation and ruminant eructation: the role (and control?) of methane in the climate change debate. Clim. Change 93:407-431.
26. Washburn, S. P., S. L. White, J. T. Green, Jr., and G. A. Benson. 2002. Reproduction, mastitis, and body condition of seasonally calved Holstein and Jersey cows in confinement or pasture systems. J. Dairy Sci. 85:105-111.
27. Whitford, M. F., R. M. Teather, and R. J. Forster. 2001. Phylogenetic analysis of methanogens from the bovine rumen. BMC Microbiol. 1:1-5.
28. Wright, A.-D. G., and C. Pimm. 2003. Improved strategy for presumptive identification of methanogens using 16S riboprinting. J. Microbiol. Methods 55:337-349.
29. Wright, A.-D. G., A. F. Toovey, and C. L. Pimm. 2006. Molecular identification of methanogenic archaea from sheep in Queensland, Australia reveal more uncultured novel archaea. Anaerobe 12:134-139.
30. Wright, A.-D. G., C. H. Auckland, and D. H. Lynn. 2007. Molecular diversity of methanogens in feedlot cattle from Ontario and Prince Edward Island, Canada. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 73:4206-4210.
31. Wright, A.-D. G., X. Ma, and N. E. Obispo. 2008. Methanobrevibacter phylotypes are the dominant methanogens in sheep from Venezuela. Microb. Ecol. 56:390-394.
32. Wright, A.-D. G., et al. 2004. Molecular diversity of rumen methanogens from sheep in Western Australia. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 70:1263-1270.
33. Wright, A.-D. G., K. S. Northwood, and N. E. Obispo. 2009. Rumen-like methanogens identified from the crop of the folivorous South American bird, the hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin). ISME J. 3:1120-1126.
34. Yu, Z., and M. Morrison. 2004. Improved extraction of PCR-quality community DNA from digesta and fecal samples. Biotechniques 36:808-812.
35. Zhou, M., E. Hernandez-Sanabria, and L. L. Guan. 2009. Assessment of the microbial ecology of ruminal methanogens in cattle with different feed efficiencies. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 75:6524.
36. Zhou, M., E. Hernandez-Sanabria, and L. L. Guan. 2010. Characterization of variation in rumen methanogenic communities under different dietary and host feed efficiency conditions, as determined by PCR-denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis analysis. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 76:3776-3786.