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Feed efficiency phenotypes in lambs involve changes in ruminal, colonic, and small-intestine-located microbiota.
Journal of animal science - 1 Jun 2017
Perea K, Perz K, Olivo S K, Williams A, Lachman M, Ishaq S L, Thomson J, Yeoman C J
Abstract excerpt
Several studies have revealed differences in rumen-located microbes between greatly efficient and inefficient animals; however, how the microbiota vary in the hind gastrointestinal tract (GIT) has only been sparsely explored and how they vary in the small intestine remains to be determined. We therefore sampled the microbiota of the duodenum, jejunum, ileum, colon, and colorectally-obtained feces, in addition to...
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