Characterization of the fecal bacteria communities of forage-fed horses by pyrosequencing of 16S rRNA V4 gene amplicons

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 326, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 62-68

  Shepherd, Megan L ^a   Swecker Jr , William S ^a   Jensen, Roderick V ^b   Ponder, Monica A ^b  

^a VIRGINIA MARYLAND REGIONAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Feces; Horse; Microbiome

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AMPLICON; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTEROIDETES; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; FECES MICROFLORA; FIRMICUTES; FORAGE; HORSE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PHYLUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; PYROSEQUENCING; RNA GENE; SOIL; V4 GENE; VERRUCOMICROBIA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; FECES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENES, RRNA; HORSES; METAGENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; BOS; CYANOBACTERIA; EQUIDAE; FIRMICUTES; PROTEOBACTERIA; VERRUCOMICROBIA;

EID: 83055186550     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2011.02434.x     Document Type: Article

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