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Composition and similarity of bovine rumen microbiota across individual animals.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Jami Elie, Mizrahi Itzhak
Abstract excerpt
The bovine rumen houses a complex microbiota which is responsible for cattle's remarkable ability to convert indigestible plant mass into food products. Despite this ecosystem's enormous significance for humans, the composition and similarity of bacterial communities across different animals and the possible presence of some bacterial taxa in all animals' rumens have yet to be determined. We characterized the...
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