Redundancy, resilience, and host specificity of the ruminal microbiota: Implications for engineering improved ruminal fermentations

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue APR, 2015, Pages

  Weimer, Paul J ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Fermentation; Host specificity; Redundancy; Resilience; Rumen

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CELL PROTEIN; DIPEPTIDE; LACTIC ACID; METHANE; METHYLAMINE; NITROGEN; PROBIOTIC AGENT; TITANIUM; TRIPEPTIDE; VOLATILE FATTY ACID;

ARCHAEON; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DNA ISOLATION; ECOLOGY; FERMENTATION; FUNGUS; GENE DOSAGE; HOST RANGE; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; MICROBIOTA REDUNDANCY; MICROBIOTA RESILIENCE; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PLANT FIBER; PREVOTELLA; PROTIST; PYROSEQUENCING; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RUMEN MICROORGANISM;

ANIMALIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; FIRMICUTES; FUNGI; PROTOZOA;

EID: 84930937875     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00296     Document Type: Review

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