Abstract The Fusobacterium genus contains Gram-negative, rod-shaped anaerobic bacteria. necrophorum and its two subspecies, funduliforme, are normal ruminal inhabitants of cattle. Subsp. is the primary causative agent liver abscesses in feedlot varium also a rumen inhabitant, but role fermentation involvement unknown. Currently, no PCR assays exist to quantify F. both subspecies necrophorum. Th...

PAQE Continuous Culture of Rumen Bacteria: Apparatus BY P. N. HOBSON . . . . . . 161 Continuous Culture of Some Anaerobic and Facultatively Anaerobic Rumen Bacteria BY P.N. HOBSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 The Behaviour of Tanned Erythrocytes in Various Haemagglutination Systems BY G. A. GARABEDIAN 181 Modified Degrees of Streptomycin-Dependence and Resistance in Escherichia coli BY...

BACKGROUND Herbivores rely on digestive tract lignocellulolytic microorganisms, including bacteria, fungi and protozoa, to derive energy and carbon from plant cell wall polysaccharides. Culture independent metagenomic studies have been used to reveal the genetic content of the bacterial species within gut microbiomes. However, the nature of the genes encoded by eukaryotic protozoa and fungi wit...

background: identifying the potential of livestock and forage plants of each region is a way to compensate the lack of forage, and efficient use of edible resources of the country. milk thistle is a medicinal plant which may be used as fodder for native livestock of khuzestan province. objectives: the purpose of this research was to study  the effects of different levels of milk thistle on rume...

Many mammals are herbivores, and most herbivorous mammals live on a diet that makes cellulose digestion essential. The ruminants, which include some of our most important domestic meatand milk-producing animals cattle, sheep and goats have a specialized digestive tract which is highly adapted and has evolved to digest highly fibrous plant materials which nonruminants are unable to utilize. In r...

Cattle manure is frequently used as an inoculum for the start-up of agricultural biogas plants or as a co-substrate in the anaerobic digestion of lignocellulosic feedstock. Ruminal microbiota are considered to be effective plant fiber degraders, but the microbes contained in manure do not necessarily reflect the rumen microbiome. The aim of this study was to compare the microbial community comp...