In vitro methane formation and carbohydrate fermentation by rumen microbes as influenced by selected rumen ciliate species

European Journal of Protistology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 389-399

  Zeitz, Johanna O ^a   Kreuzer, Michael ^a   Soliva, Carla R ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cellulose; Entodinium; Epidinium; Eudiplodinium; Fiber; Hemicellulose

Indexed keywords

METHANE; VOLATILE FATTY ACID;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BOVIDS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CILIATE; COCULTURE; FERMENTATION; GAS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; RUMINANT STOMACH; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CILIOPHORA; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; FATTY ACIDS, VOLATILE; FERMENTATION; GASES; METHANE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RUMEN; RUMINANTS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CILIOPHORA; ENTODINIUM; ENTODINIUM CAUDATUM; EPIDINIUM; EPIDINIUM CAUDATUM; EPIDINIUM ECAUDATUM; EUDIPLODINIUM; EUDIPLODINIUM MAGGII; PROKARYOTA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 84878588640     PISSN: 09324739     EISSN: 16180429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejop.2013.02.003     Document Type: Article

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