An In Vitro Model of the Horse Gut Microbiome Enables Identification of Lactate-Utilizing Bacteria That Differentially Respond to Starch Induction

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Biddle, Amy S ^a   Black, Samuel J ^a   Blanchard, Jeffrey L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; LACTIC ACID; PROPIONIC ACID; SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACID; STARCH;

ADULT ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; GENERAL MEDICAL DEVICE; HORSE; IN VITRO STUDY; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTATE UTILIZING BACTERIUM; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; MEGASPHAERA ELSDENII; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROCOSM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PH; RNA SEQUENCE; VEILLONELLA; VEILLONELLA MONTPELLIERENSIS;

ACETIC ACID; ACIDOSIS, LACTIC; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL LOAD; CECUM; COLON; FECES; HORSES; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LACTIC ACID; MEGASPHAERA; MICROBIOTA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROPIONATES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; STARCH; VEILLONELLA;

EID: 84884882117     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077599     Document Type: Article

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