Exploring the bovine rumen bacterial community from birth to adulthood
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The mammalian gut microbiota is essential in shaping many of its host's functional attributes. One such microbiota resides in the bovine digestive tract in a compartment termed as the rumen. The rumen microbiota is necessary for the proper physiological development of the rumen and for the animal's ability to digest and convert plant mass into food products, making it highly significant to humans. The establishment of this microbial population and the changes occurring with the host's age are important for understanding this key microbial community. Despite its importance, little information about colonization of the microbial populations in newborn animals, and the gradual changes occurring thereafter, exists. Here, we characterized the overall bovine ruminal bacterial populations of five age groups, from 1-day-old calves to 2-year-old cows. We describe the changes occurring in the rumen ecosystem after birth, reflected by a decline in aerobic and facultative anaerobic taxa and an increase in anaerobic ones. Some rumen bacteria that are essential for mature rumen function could be detected as early as 1 day after birth, long before the rumen is active or even before ingestion of plant material occurs. The diversity and within-group similarity increased with age, suggesting a more diverse but homogeneous and specific mature community, compared with the more heterogeneous and less diverse primary community. In addition, a convergence toward a mature bacterial arrangement with age was observed. These findings have also been reported for human gut microbiota, suggesting that similar forces drive the establishment of gut microbiotas in these two distinct mammalian digestive systems.
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Specific physiological processes in lactating animals are correlated with specific rumen microbes owing to their unique fermentation and metabolic activities.
“Specific physiological processes in lactating animals are correlated with specific rumen microbes owing to their unique fermentation and metabolic activities (14).”
From Phytogenic Additives Can Modulate Rumen Microbiome to Mediate Fermentation Kinetics and Methanogenesis Through Exploiting Diet–Microbe Interaction (2020) · cites this paper as [14]
The Introduction links microbial fermentation products to rumen development, and the study includes lactating dairy cows (Rumen bacterial composition across different age groups; page unavailable). However, our copy does not establish correlations between specific microbes and specific physiological processes in those lactating cows. (LLM, conf=0.82)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredColonization of the developing rumen begins immediately after birth and progresses through the first few months of life until a stable community establishes.
“Colonization of the developing rumen begins immediately after birth and progresses through the first few months of life until a stable community establishes (Jami et al., 2013).”
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- Authors
- Jami, E., Israel, A., Kotser, A., & Mizrahi, I.
- Affiliations
- Tel Aviv University (IL)
- Agricultural Research Organization (IL)
- Corresponding author
- Mizrahi, Itzhak
- Venue
- The ISME Journal
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2013-02-21
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1069-1079
- ISSN
- 1751-7362 (ISSN-L)
- 1751-7370
- PMC
- PMC3660679
- OpenAlex
- W2120398282
- Cited by
- 963
- References
- 35
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- FWCI
- 70.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- The ISME Journal (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Israeli Dairy Board
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agronomy and Crop Science › Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gut microbiota and health
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Animal Science and Zoology › Animal Nutrition and Physiology
- Keywords
- rumen microbiota, bovine rumen, rumen bacterial community, age-related microbial changes, microbial colonization, calves, rumen development, anaerobic bacteria, bacterial diversity, ruminant digestion
- MeSH terms
- Aging, Animals, Bacteria, Cattle, Humans, Infant, Newborn, Rumen, Gastrointestinal Tract
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