Analysis of stomach bacterial communities in Australian feral horses

Molecular Biology Reports

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 369-376

  St Pierre, Benoit ^a   De La Fuente, Gabriel ^b   O'Neill, Sean ^a   Wright, André Denis G ^a,c   Al Jassim, Rafat ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Feral horse; Mutualistic bacteria; Stomach

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; RNA 16S;

16S RRNA GENE; ACIDAMINOCOCCACEAE; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FERAL HORSE; FIRMICUTES; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LIBRARY; HORSE; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTOBACILLACEAE; MAMMAL; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PASTEURELLACEAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCACEAE; SYMBIOSIS; THROAT; VEGETATION;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIA; HORSES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; STOMACH;

ACIDAMINOCOCCACEAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; FIRMICUTES; LACTOBACILLACEAE; MAMMALIA; OTUS; PASTEURELLACEAE; STREPTOCOCCACEAE;

EID: 84871344438     PISSN: 03014851     EISSN: 15734978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11033-012-2070-5     Document Type: Article

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