The rumen microbiome: balancing food security and environmental impacts

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Evaluation of esophageal tubing and buccal swabbing versus rumen cannula to characterize ruminal microbiota in cows fed contrasting diets

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Performance improvements and increased ruminal microbial interactions in Angus heifers via supplementation with native rumen bacteria during high-grain challenge

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Integrated Transcriptome and Microbiota Reveal the Regulatory Effect of 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Supplementation in Antler Growth of Sika Deer

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Prokaryote Composition and Structure of Rumen Fluid before and after In Vitro Rumen Fermentation

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Multi-Omics Insights into Variety-Driven Differences in Rice Straw Feed Utilization: An In Vitro Fermentation Study

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Loss of Myostatin leads to low production of CH4 by altering rumen microbiota and metabolome in cattle

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Exploring the ruminal microbiota of dairy cows for probiotic strains

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Serine governs metabolic homeostasis and microbial crosstalk to promote the utilization of urea nitrogen in rumen fermentation in vitro

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Wheat rhizospheric microbial network's consistent modular pattern in improved lunar soil simulant accompanied with fungal withdrawal

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The impact of sward type and inorganic nitrogen application rate on the rumen metabolome of dairy cows as determined by nuclear magnetic resonance

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Regulatory mechanisms of quorum sensing in microbial communities and their potential applications in ruminant livestock production

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Recent research progress on the effects of microalgae on lipid metabolism in ruminants: A review of the gastrointestinal tract–brain axis

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Spatiotemporal evolution regional differences and decoupling effects of greenhouse gas emissions from animal husbandry in Henan Province

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Persistent auxiliary microbiome of early novel colonizers in the developing rumen with lasting functional significance

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Alterations of rumen and fecal microbiome in growing beef and dairy steers fed rumen-protected Capsicum oleoresin

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