The establishment of a fungal population composed of the main species usually found in ruminants in the rumen of gnotobiotic lambs did not significantly alter the in sacco digestibility of meat meal and soybean cake. The proteolytic activity of the rumen fluid against 14C-casein was not affected by the fungi. Therefore, these microorganisms probably do not play an important role in the degradat...

Advances in knowledge of ruminant nutrition and metabolism during the second half of the twentieth century have been reviewed. Part I is concerned with metabolism in the rumen: Part II discusses utilization of nutrients absorbed from the rumen and lower tract to support growth and reproduction. The time frame was prompted by the crucial advances in ruminant physiology which arose from the work ...

Ruminant herbivores utilize a symbiotic relationship with microorganisms in their rumen to exploit fibrous foods for nutrition. We report the metagenome sequences of the greater kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) rumen digesta, revealing a diverse community of microbes and some novel hydrolytic enzymes.

The ability of rumen microorganisms to use fibrous plant matter plays an important role in ruminant animals; however, little information about rumen colonization by microbial populations after weaning has been reported. In this study, high-throughput sequencing was used to investigate the establishment of this microbial population in 80 to 110-day-old goats. Illumina sequencing of goat rumen sa...

Herbivores as well as other vertebrates are not capable of producing cellulases and/or hemicelullases. Instead, a lot of herbivores form symbiotic associations with bacteria, protozoa and fungi which produce these enszymes and therefore are capable of degrading the plant polymers. In return for the relatively constant environment and continuous flow of plant material, the microorganisms of the ...

Methanogens are the only known microorganisms capable of methane production, making them of interest when investigating methane abatement strategies. A number of experiments have been conducted to study the methanogen population in the rumen of cattle and sheep, as well as the relationship that methanogens have with other microorganisms. The rumen methanogen species differ depending on diet and...

N UMEROUS communications from this laboratory, Burroughs et al. (I949a, I949b, I949c, I95oa, I9~ob, and I9~oc) have called attention to the influence of nutrients needed by rumen microorganisms in the digestion of roughages, particularly the cellulose fraction. Hungate (I9~o), after extensively reviewing the literature pertaining to rumen cellulose digesting bacteria, concluded that: "Further i...