Recent developments in nucleic acid based techniques for use in rumen manipulation

Nucleic acid-based techniques which can be used to characterise complex microbial communities without incubation are now being employed regularly in ruminant nutrition studies. Conventional culture-based methods for enumerating rumen microorganisms (bacteria, archaea, protozoa, and fungi) have been...

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Main Authors: Christopher McSweeney, Seungha Kang, Emma Gagen, Carl Davis, Mark Morrison, Stuart Denman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia 2009-07-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-35982009001300034