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Changes in bacterial diversity associated with epithelial tissue in the beef cow rumen during the transition to a high-grain diet.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 15 Aug 2011
Chen Yanhong, Penner Gregory B, Li Meiju, Oba Masahito, Guan Le Luo
Abstract excerpt
Our understanding of the ruminal epithelial tissue-associated bacterial (defined as epimural bacteria in this study) community is limited. In this study, we aimed to determine whether diet influences the diversity of the epimural bacterial community in the bovine rumen. Twenty-four beef heifers were randomly assigned to either a rapid grain adaptation (RGA) treatment (n = 18) in which the heifers were allowed to...
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