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A meta-analysis of the microbial diversity observed in anaerobic digesters

scientific article published on December 3, 2010

Abundance of pathogens in the gut and litter of broiler chickens as affected by bacitracin and litter management

scientific article published on 21 June 2013

Aerobic cultivation of anaerobic rumen protozoa, Entodinium caudatum and Epidinium caudatum

scientific article published on 21 August 2018

An efficient RNA extraction method for estimating gut microbial diversity by polymerase chain reaction

scientific article published on 22 January 2009

Apparent contradiction: psychrotolerant bacteria from hydrocarbon-contaminated arctic tundra soils that degrade diterpenoids synthesized by trees

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Assessment of ruminal bacterial populations and protozoal generation time in cows fed different methionine sources

scientific article published on 01 February 2007

Association of aqueous hydrogen concentration with methane production in continuous cultures modulated to vary pH and solids passage rate

scientific article published on 27 April 2017

Bacterial census of poultry intestinal microbiome.

scientific article published on March 2013

Bacterial diversity and community structure in an aerated lagoon revealed by ribosomal intergenic spacer analyses and 16S ribosomal DNA sequencing

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Bioaugmentation with resin-acid-degrading bacteria enhances resin acid removal in sequencing batch reactors treating pulp mill effluents

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Bioaugmentation with the resin acid-degrading bacterium Zoogloea resiniphila DhA-35 to counteract pH stress in an aerated lagoon treating pulp and paper mill effluent

scientific article published in June 2002

Biological conversion of biogas to methanol using methanotrophs isolated from solid-state anaerobic digestate.

scientific article published on 26 November 2015

Biological conversion of methane to liquid fuels: status and opportunities.

scientific article published on 02 October 2014

Cell surface enzyme attachment is mediated by family 37 carbohydrate-binding modules, unique to Ruminococcus albus

scientific article published on 17 October 2008

Changes in diversity of cultured bacteria resistant to erythromycin and tetracycline in swine manure during simulated composting and lagoon storage.

scientific article published on 30 May 2015

Characterization and performance of anodic mixed culture biofilms in submersed microbial fuel cells

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Combinations of nitrate, saponin, and sulfate additively reduce methane production by rumen cultures in vitro while not adversely affecting feed digestion, fermentation or microbial communities

scientific article published on 31 December 2013

Comparison of different liquid anaerobic digestion effluents as inocula and nitrogen sources for solid-state batch anaerobic digestion of corn stover.

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Comparisons of different hypervariable regions of rrs genes for use in fingerprinting of microbial communities by PCR-denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis.

scientific article published on August 2004

Considerations and best practices in animal science 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequencing microbiome studies

scientific article published on 02 February 2022

Corrigendum: Inhibition of the Rumen Ciliate Entodinium caudatum by Antibiotics.

scientific article published on 7 August 2017

Critical evaluation of essential oils as rumen modifiers in ruminant nutrition: A review.

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Degradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons at low temperature under aerobic and nitrate-reducing conditions in enrichment cultures from northern soils

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Design, implementation and interpretation of in vitro batch culture experiments to assess enteric methane mitigation in ruminants—a review

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Development and application of real-time PCR assays for quantification of erm genes conferring resistance to macrolides-lincosamides-streptogramin B in livestock manure and manure management systems

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Development and application of real-time PCR assays for quantification of genes encoding tetracycline resistance.

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Development of a phylogenetic microarray for comprehensive analysis of ruminal bacterial communities.

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Development of an assay to quantify rumen ciliate protozoal biomass in cows using real-time PCR.

scientific article published in December 2004

Dietary supplementation of Rosmarinus officinalis L. leaves in sheep affects the abundance of rumen methanogens and other microbial populations

scientific article published on 27 April 2016

Draft Genome Sequence of Methylocaldum sp. SAD2, a Methanotrophic Strain That Can Convert Raw Biogas to Methanol in the Presence of Hydrogen Sulfide

scientific article published on 10 August 2017

Draft Genome Sequence of Methylocaldum sp. Strain 14B, an Obligate Hydrogen Sulfide-Tolerant Methanotrophic Strain That Can Convert Biogas to Methanol

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Draft Macronuclear Genome Sequence of the Ruminal Ciliate Entodinium caudatum

scientific article published on 12 July 2018

Dynamics of bacterial community in solid-state fermented feed revealed by 16S rRNA.

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Effect of external resistance on bacterial diversity and metabolism in cellulose-fed microbial fuel cells

scientific article published on 02 June 2010

Effect of haylage and monensin supplementation on ruminal bacterial communities of feedlot cattle.

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Effect of organic loading on the microbiota in a temperature-phased anaerobic digestion (TPAD) system co-digesting dairy manure and waste whey.

scientific article published on 18 June 2015

Effect of pH buffering capacity and sources of dietary sulfur on rumen fermentation, sulfide production, methane production, sulfate reducing bacteria, and total Archaea in in vitro rumen cultures

scientific article published on 14 March 2015

Effect of ruminal pulse dose of polyunsaturated fatty acids on ruminal microbial populations and duodenal flow and milk profiles of fatty acids

scientific article published on 01 June 2011

Effective reduction of enteric methane production by a combination of nitrate and saponin without adverse effect on feed degradability, fermentation, or bacterial and archaeal communities of the rumen.

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Effects of Adaptation of In vitro Rumen Culture to Garlic Oil, Nitrate, and Saponin and Their Combinations on Methanogenesis, Fermentation, and Abundances and Diversity of Microbial Populations

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Effects of Incremental Urea Supplementation on Rumen Fermentation, Nutrient Digestion, Plasma Metabolites, and Growth Performance in Fattening Lambs

scientific article published on 04 September 2019

Effects of coconut and fish oils on ruminal methanogenesis, fermentation, and abundance and diversity of microbial populations in vitro

scientific article published on 16 January 2013

Effects of different sources of physically effective fiber on rumen microbial populations.

scientific article published on 14 September 2015

Effects of essential oils on methane production and fermentation by, and abundance and diversity of, rumen microbial populations.

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Effects of garlic oil, nitrate, saponin and their combinations supplemented to different substrates on in vitro fermentation, ruminal methanogenesis, and abundance and diversity of microbial populations.

scientific article published on May 2015

Effects of gas composition in headspace and bicarbonate concentrations in media on gas and methane production, degradability, and rumen fermentation using in vitro gas production techniques

scientific article published on 16 May 2013

Effects of methanogenic inhibitors on methane production and abundances of methanogens and cellulolytic bacteria in in vitro ruminal cultures

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Effects of microbial and non-microbial factors of liquid anaerobic digestion effluent as inoculum on solid-state anaerobic digestion of corn stover.

scientific article published on 31 January 2014

Effects of nitrate on methane production, fermentation, and microbial populations in in vitro ruminal cultures

scientific article published on 10 October 2011

Effects of quillaja and yucca saponins on communities and select populations of rumen bacteria and archaea, and fermentation in vitro.

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Effects of vanillin, quillaja saponin, and essential oils on in vitro fermentation and protein-degrading microorganisms of the rumen

scientific article published on April 30, 2013

Electricity generation from cellulose by rumen microorganisms in microbial fuel cells.

scientific article published in August 2007

Essential oils affect populations of some rumen bacteria in vitro as revealed by microarray (RumenBactArray) analysis.

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Estrogen status alters tissue distribution and metabolism of selenium in female rats.

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Evaluation of different partial 16S rRNA gene sequence regions for phylogenetic analysis of microbiomes.

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Evaluation of ferric oxide and ferric citrate for their effects on fermentation, production of sulfide and methane, and abundance of select microbial populations using in vitro rumen cultures.

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Evaluation of system performances and microbial communities of two temperature-phased anaerobic digestion systems treating dairy manure

scientific article published on 13 June 2013

Evaluations of different hypervariable regions of archaeal 16S rRNA genes in profiling of methanogens by Archaea-specific PCR and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis.

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Exposure to a social stressor disrupts the community structure of the colonic mucosa-associated microbiota.

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Feedstocks Affect the Diversity and Distribution of Propionate CoA-Transferase Genes (pct) in Anaerobic Digesters

scientific article published on May 3, 2013

Ferric citrate, nitrate, saponin and their combinations affect in vitro ruminal fermentation, production of sulphide and methane and abundance of select microbial populations

scientific article published on 21 May 2019

Functional phylotyping approach for assessing intraspecific diversity of Ruminococcus albus within the rumen microbiome

scientific article published on 22 December 2014

Genomic Insights into the Distribution of Peptidases and Proteolytic Capacity among <i>Prevotella</i> and <i>Paraprevotella</i> Species

scientific article published on 04 April 2022

Green tea extract prevents obesity in male mice by alleviating gut dysbiosis in association with improved intestinal barrier function that limits endotoxin translocation and adipose inflammation

scientific article published on 08 February 2019

Gut dysbiosis impairs recovery after spinal cord injury.

scientific article published on 17 October 2016

High-Performing Windowfarm Hydroponic System: Transcriptomes of Fresh Produce and Microbial Communities in Response to Beneficial Bacterial Treatment

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Hydrogen and volatile fatty acid production during fermentation of cellulosic substrates by a thermophilic consortium at 50 and 60 °C.

scientific article published on 10 November 2011

Impact of different ratios of feedstock to liquid anaerobic digestion effluent on the performance and microbiome of solid-state anaerobic digesters digesting corn stover.

scientific article published on 28 October 2015

Improved extraction of PCR-quality community DNA from digesta and fecal samples

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Inhibition of the Rumen Ciliate Entodinium caudatum by Antibiotics.

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Interrelations between the microbiotas in the litter and in the intestines of commercial broiler chickens.

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Intestinal Microbiota of Broiler Chickens As Affected by Litter Management Regimens.

scientific article published on 18 May 2016

Intestinal microbiome of poultry and its interaction with host and diet

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Investigating unsaturated fat, monensin, or bromoethanesulfonate in continuous cultures retaining ruminal protozoa. II. Interaction of treatment and presence of protozoa on prokaryotic communities.

scientific article published in August 2009

Investigation of ruminal bacterial diversity in dairy cattle fed supplementary monensin alone and in combination with fat, using pyrosequencing analysis.

scientific article published on 17 December 2013

Isolation and characterization of thermophilic bacteria capable of degrading dehydroabietic acid

scientific article published in June 1999

Isolation and characterization of two thermophilic cellulolytic strains of Clostridium thermocellum from a compost sample.

scientific article published on 11 January 2013

Medicinal herbs as a potential strategy to decrease methane production by rumen microbiota: a systematic evaluation with a focus on Perilla frutescens seed extract.

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Metagenomic insights into the carbohydrate-active enzymes carried by the microorganisms adhering to solid digesta in the rumen of cows.

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Metagenomic investigation of gastrointestinal microbiome in cattle.

scientific article published on 22 August 2017

Monensin and Nisin Affect Rumen Fermentation and Microbiota Differently In Vitro.

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Monitoring the Size and Metabolic Activity of the Bacterial Community during Biostimulation of Fuel-Contaminated Soil using Competitive PCR and RT-PCR.

scientific article published in October 2001

Novel glycoside hydrolases identified by screening a Chinese Holstein dairy cow rumen-derived metagenome library

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Occurrence and persistence of erythromycin resistance genes (erm) and tetracycline resistance genes (tet) in waste treatment systems on swine farms.

scientific article published on 6 February 2010

Occurrence of Two Resin Acid-Degrading Bacteria and a Gene Encoding Resin Acid Biodegradation in Pulp and Paper Mill Effluent Biotreatment Systems Assayed by PCR

scientific article published on 01 August 1999

Persistence of resistance to erythromycin and tetracycline in swine manure during simulated composting and lagoon treatments.

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Phylogenetic diversity of bacterial communities in bovine rumen as affected by diets and microenvironments

scientific article published on September 8, 2011

Populations of select cultured and uncultured bacteria in the rumen of sheep and the effect of diets and ruminal fractions

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Prebiotic Oligosaccharides: Comparative Evaluation Using In Vitro Cultures of Infants' Fecal Microbiomes

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Putting microbes to work in sequence: recent advances in temperature-phased anaerobic digestion processes

scientific article published on 29 July 2010

Quantitative analysis of intestinal bacterial populations from term infants fed formula supplemented with fructo-oligosaccharides

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Quantitative assessment of the tetracycline resistance gene pool in cheese samples by real-time TaqMan PCR.

scientific article published on 5 January 2007

Quantitative comparisons of select cultured and uncultured microbial populations in the rumen of cattle fed different diets

scientific article published on 7 September 2012

RUMINANT NUTRITION SYMPOSIUM: How to use data on the rumen microbiome to improve our understanding of ruminant nutrition

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Reactor performance and microbial community dynamics during solid-state anaerobic digestion of corn stover at mesophilic and thermophilic conditions

scientific article published on March 5, 2013

Recent advances in understanding resin acid biodegradation: microbial diversity and metabolism

scientific article (publication date: September 1999)

Reducing microbial ureolytic activity in the rumen by immunization against urease therein

scientific article published on 14 April 2015

Relative importance of Microcystis abundance and diversity in determining microcystin dynamics in Lake Erie coastal wetland and downstream beach water

scientific article published on 23 October 2015

Review of current in vivo measurement techniques for quantifying enteric methane emission from ruminants

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Rumen fermentation and microbial community composition influenced by live Enterococcus faecium supplementation

scientific article published on 30 July 2019

Rumen methanogens and mitigation of methane emission by anti-methanogenic compounds and substances

scientific article (publication date: 2017)

Ruminal nitrogen metabolism: perspectives for integration of microbiology and nutrition for dairy.

scientific article published on June 2007

Ruminant physiology

scholarly article published 2 February 2006

Selected antimicrobial resistance during composting of manure from cattle administered sub-therapeutic antimicrobials

scientific article published on 6 February 2009

Sequential batch thermophilic solid-state anaerobic digestion of lignocellulosic biomass via recirculating digestate as inoculum - Part II: Microbial diversity and succession.

scientific article published on 9 June 2017

Serial analysis of ribosomal sequence tags (SARST): a high-throughput method for profiling complex microbial communities.

scientific article published in February 2004

Shifts in microbial community structure of granular and liquid biomass in response to changes to infeed and digester design in anaerobic digesters receiving food-processing wastes.

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Short communication: Does early-life administration of a Megasphaera elsdenii probiotic affect long-term establishment of the organism in the rumen and alter rumen metabolism in the dairy calf?

scientific article published on 22 November 2017

Spatial and temporal variations of microbial community in a mixed plug-flow loop reactor fed with dairy manure

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Specific inhibitors of lysozyme and peptidases inhibit the growth of the rumen protozoan Entodinium caudatum without decreasing feed digestion or fermentation in vitro

scientific article published on 26 June 2019

Stability of the bacterial community in a pulp mill effluent treatment system during normal operation and a system shutdown.

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Status of the phylogenetic diversity census of ruminal microbiomes.

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Steam explosion enhances digestibility and fermentation of corn stover by facilitating ruminal microbial colonization.

scientific article published on 6 January 2018

Suppression of methanogenesis in cellulose-fed microbial fuel cells in relation to performance, metabolite formation, and microbial population.

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Technical note: Occurrence in fecal microbiota of genes conferring resistance to both macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B and tetracyclines concomitant with feeding of beef cattle with tylosin.

scientific article published on 9 May 2008

The Bacteriomes of Ileal Mucosa and Cecal Content of Broiler Chickens and Turkeys as Revealed by Metagenomic Analysis

scientific article published on 28 December 2016

The Microbiota of Recreational Freshwaters and the Implications for Environmental and Public Health

scientific article published on 17 November 2016

The structures of the colonic mucosa-associated and luminal microbial communities are distinct and differentially affected by a prolonged murine stressor

scientific article published on January 2014

The transcriptome of the rumen ciliate Entodinium caudatum reveals some of its metabolic features

scientific article published on 21 December 2019

Variations in 16S rRNA-based microbiome profiling between pyrosequencing runs and between pyrosequencing facilities.

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Volume ratios between the thermophilic and the mesophilic digesters of a temperature-phased anaerobic digestion system affect their performance and microbial communities

scientific article published on 29 July 2015