Effects of essential oils on methane production and fermentation by, and abundance and diversity of, rumen microbial populations

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4271-4280

  Patra, Amlan K ^a,b   Yu, Zhongtang ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEST BENGAL UNIVERSITY OF ANIMAL AND FISHERY SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; CELLULOLYTIC BACTERIUM; CLOVE OIL; DEGRADABILITY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESES (DGGE); DIVERSITY INDEX; DOSE-DEPENDENT MANNER; DRY MATTERS; EUCALYPTUS OIL; FIBROBACTER SUCCINOGENES; GARLIC OIL; HIGH DOSE; IN-VITRO; LOW DOSE; METHANE EMISSIONS; METHANE PRODUCTION; MICROBIAL POPULATIONS; MOLAR PROPORTIONS; NEUTRAL DETERGENT FIBER; QUANTITATIVE REAL TIME PCR; RUMINAL MICROBES; TOTAL VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS;

BACTERIA; ELECTROPHORESIS; FERMENTATION; MAMMALS; METHANE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOA; VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS;

ESSENTIAL OILS;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ESSENTIAL OIL; METHANE;

ABUNDANCE; ACETATE; DIVERSITY INDEX; DRY MATTER; ELECTROKINESIS; ESSENTIAL OIL; FATTY ACID; FERMENTATION; METHANE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROKARYOTE; PROTOZOAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMAL; ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIUM; CELL COUNT; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECT; FERMENTATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; RUMINANT STOMACH;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL LOAD; CELL COUNT; FERMENTATION; METHANE; OILS, VOLATILE; PARASITES; RUMEN;

ALLIUM SATIVUM; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUCALYPTUS; FIBROBACTER SUCCINOGENES; MENTHA X PIPERITA; ORIGANUM; PROTOZOA; RUMINOCOCCUS FLAVEFACIENS; SYZYGIUM AROMATICUM;

EID: 84864106575     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00309-12     Document Type: Article

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