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Novel rumen bacterial diversity in two geographically separated sub-species of reindeer.
Microbial ecology - 1 Oct 2007
Sundset Monica A, Praesteng Kirsti E, Cann Isaac K O, Mathiesen Svein D, Mackie Roderick I
Abstract excerpt
Svalbard reindeer (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus) live under austere nutritional conditions on the high-arctic archipelago of Svalbard, while semi-domesticated Norwegian reindeer (R. tarandus tarandus) migrate between lush coastal summer pastures and inland winter pastures with lichens on mainland Norway. Svalbard reindeer are known to have high rumen concentrations of cellulolytic bacteria, ranging from 15% of...
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