Diversity and community composition of methanogenic archaea in the rumen of scottish upland sheep assessed by different methods

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Snelling, Timothy J ^a   Genç, Buʇra ^b   McKain, Nest ^a   Watson, Mick ^c   Waters, Sinéad M ^d   Creevey, Christopher J ^e   Wallace, R John ^a  

^a ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d ANIMAL AND GRASSLAND RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Ireland)

^e ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; ARCHAEAL DNA;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; GENE; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; ILLUMINA AMPLICON SEQUENCING; ILLUMINA METAGENOME SEQUENCING; MCRA GENE; METAGENOMICS; METHANOBACTERIALES; METHANOBREVIBACTER; METHANOGENIC ARCHAEON; METHANOSPHAERA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RANGELAND; RUMINANT STOMACH; SANGER AMPLICON SEQUENCING; SHEEP; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; THERMOPLASMATALES; UNITED KINGDOM; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EURYARCHAEOTA; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METAGENOME; METHANOBACTERIACEAE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

OVIS ARIES;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, ARCHAEAL; EURYARCHAEOTA; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; METAGENOME; METHANOBACTERIACEAE; METHANOBACTERIALES; METHANOBREVIBACTER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RUMEN; SCOTLAND; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHEEP;

EID: 84907450566     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0106491     Document Type: Article

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