Bacterial communities in the rumen of Holstein heifers differ when fed orchardgrass as pasture vs. hay

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue DEC, 2014, Pages

  Mohammed, Riazuddin ^a   Brink, Geoffrey E ^b   Stevenson, David M ^c   Neumann, Anthony P ^c   Beauchemin, Karen A ^a   Suen, Garret ^c   Weimer, Paul J ^b,c  

^a LETHBRIDGE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b U S DAIRY FORAGE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial community composition; Forage; Hay; Pasture; Rumen microbiology; Volatile fatty acids

Indexed keywords

BUTYRIC ACID; GENOMIC DNA; RNA 16S; VOLATILE FATTY ACID;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED METHOD OF RIBOSOMAL INTERGENIC SPACER ANALYSIS; BUTYRIVIBRIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DACTYLIS GLOMERATA; DNA ISOLATION; FEMALE; FORAGE; HAY; HEIFER; HOLSTEIN CATTLE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CONTENT; PASTURE; PREVOTELLA; PYROSEQUENCING; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RUMEN MICROORGANISM;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; BUTYRIVIBRIO; DACTYLIS; FIRMICUTES; PREVOTELLA;

EID: 84920688955     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00689     Document Type: Article

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