The core faecal bacterial microbiome of Irish Thoroughbred racehorses

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 492-501

  O'Donnell, M M ^a,b   Harris, H M B ^b   Jeffery, I B ^b   Claesson, M J ^b   Younge, B ^c   O'Toole, P W ^b   Ross, R P ^a  

^a TEAGASC FOOD RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Intestinal microbiology; Lactobacillus; Metabolism; Metagenomics; Streptococci

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA;

EUBACTERIA; GUT MICROBIOTA; INTESTINAL MICROBIOLOGY; LACTOBACILLUS; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOME; PERFORMANCE; STREPTOCOCCUS; THOROUGHBRED RACEHORSE;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLOSTRIDIUM; DNA EXTRACTION; EUBACTERIUM; EUBACTERIUM COPROSTANOLIGENES; EUBACTERIUM HALLII; EUBACTERIUM RUMINANTIUM; FECES MICROFLORA; FIBROBACTER SUCCINOGENES; HORSE; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS EQUICURSORIS; MICROBIOME; NONHUMAN; OSCILLOSPIRA GUILLERMONDII; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PYROSEQUENCING; SPOROBACTER TERMIDITIS; TREPONEMA; TREPONEMA PARVUM; TREPONEMA PORCINUM;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ANAEROTRUNCUS; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; CLOSTRIDIUM; CONGIOPODIDAE; COPROCOCCUS; EQUIDAE; EUBACTERIUM COPROSTANOLIGENES; EUBACTERIUM HALLII; EUBACTERIUM RUMINANTIUM; EURYARCHAEOTA; FAECALIBACTERIUM; FIBROBACTER; FIBROBACTER SUCCINOGENES; FIBROBACTERES; FIRMICUTES; LACTOBACILLUS; OSCILLOSPIRA; OSCILLOSPIRA GUILLIERMONDII; PROTEOBACTERIA; RUMINOCOCCUS; SPIROCHAETES; SPOROBACTER; TREPONEMA; TREPONEMA PARVUM; TREPONEMA PORCINUM; VERRUCOMICROBIA;

INTESTINAL MICROBIOLOGY; LACTOBACILLUS; METABOLISM; METAGENOMICS; STREPTOCOCCI;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HORSES; MALE; METAGENOME; MICROBIOTA;

EID: 84887602582     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: 1472765X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/lam.12137     Document Type: Article

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