Two different bacterial community types are linked with the low-methane emission trait in sheep

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Kittelmann, Sandra ^a   Pinares Patiño, Cesar S ^a   Seedorf, Henning ^a   Kirk, Michelle R ^a   Ganesh, Siva ^a   McEwan, John C ^b   Janssen, Peter H ^a  

^a AGRESEARCH GRASSLANDS   (New Zealand)

^b INVERMAY AGRICULTURAL CENTRE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; HYDROGEN; LACTIC ACID; METHANE; PROPIONIC ACID; SUCCINIC ACID;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDALES; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; BREED DIFFERENCE; CATABACTERIACEAE; CLOSTRIDIALES; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPROCOCCUS; DRY MATTER; FERMENTATION; FIBROBACTER; FOOD INTAKE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOTYPE; KANDLERIA VITULINA; LACHNOSPIRACEAE; METHANOGENESIS; METHANOGENIC ARCHAEON; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; OLSENELLA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVOTELLA; PREVOTELLA BRYANTII; QUINELLA OVALIS; RUMEN MICROORGANISM; RUMINANT STOMACH; RUMINOCOCCACEAE; RUMINOCOCCUS; SHARPEA AZABUENSIS; SHEEP; SHEEP FARMING; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; METHANE; RUMEN; SHEEP;

EID: 84905366346     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0103171     Document Type: Article

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