Methane yield phenotypes linked to differential gene expression in the sheep rumen microbiome

Genome Research

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1517-1525

  Shi, Weibing ^a,b   Moon, Christina D ^c   Leahy, Sinead C ^c   Kang, Dongwan ^a,b   Froula, Jeff ^a,b   Kittelmann, Sandra ^c   Fan, Christina ^a,b   Deutsch, Samuel ^a,b   Gagic, Dragana ^c   Seedorf, Henning ^c   Kelly, William J ^c   Atua, Renee ^c   Sang, Carrie ^c   Soni, Priya ^c   Li, Dong ^c   Pinares Patiño, Cesar S ^c   McEwan, John C ^c   Janssen, Peter H ^c   Chen, Feng ^a,b   Visel, Axel ^a,b,d   Wang, Zhong ^a,b,d   Attwood, Graeme T ^c   Rubin, Edward M ^a,b   more..

^a DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c AGRESEARCH GRASSLANDS   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHANE; ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; INTESTINE FLORA; MCR GENE; METAGENOMICS; METHANOBREVIBACTER; METHANOBREVIBACTER RUMINANTIUM; METHANOGENESIS; METHANOSPHAERA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MRT GENE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; RUMEN MICROORGANISM; SHEEP; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; ARCHAEON; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RUMEN;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; METAGENOME; METHANE; MICROBIOTA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; RUMEN; SHEEP; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84905387976     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.168245.113     Document Type: Article

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