In fishes, the evolution of herbivory has occured within a spectrum of digestive strategies, with two extremes on opposite ends: (i) a rate-maximization strategy characterized by high intake, rapid throughput of food through the gut, and little reliance on microbial digestion or (ii) a yield-maximization strategy characterized by measured intake, slower transit of food through the gut, and more...

ABSTRACT The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects oral administration fiber from first week life on growth and hindgut environment preweaning calves. Twenty newborn female Holstein calves were divided into 2 groups as control treatment. Calves in both reared under same feeding program except for administration. Timothy hay psyllium mixed at a 50-to-6 ratio treatment diet...

Abstract Inflammation emanating from the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) is a key component to suboptimal farm animal productivity. Gut inflammation encompasses more than just acidosis and widespread condition in high producing feedlot or dairy cows which commonly associated with feeding grain (starch) ration. Many of direct causes are related microbial fermentation rumen hindgut, both directly in...

Abstract The objective was to investigate the hindgut disappearance of phosphorus (P) in corn-soybean meal-based diets with or without inorganic P sources pigs. Hindgut hypothesized be greater a diet than P. Barrows (n = 5; initial body weight 23.5 ± 3.1 kg and final 33.7 5.5 kg) fitted T-cannula distal ileum were individually housed pens equipped feeder nipple drinker. Two formulated inclusion...

Bacteria from the hindguts of Dermolepida albohirtum larvae were assessed for their potential to be used in paratransgenic strategies that target scarab pests of sugarcane. Bacteria isolated in pure culture from the hindguts of D. albohirtum larvae were from the Proteobacteria, Firmicutes, and Actinobacteria phyla and matched closely with taxa from intestinal and rhizosphere environments. Howev...

Electron microscopy of the hindgut showed that actinomycete-like bacteria were the principal microbial associates of two African species of soil-feeding termites. Elongated cuticular spines provided attachment.