Gastrointestinal microbiota play a crucial role in nutrient digestion, maintaining animal
health and welfare. Various factors may affect microbial balance often leading to …

Simple Summary In horses, a healthy state of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) is of utmost
importance to support animals' health and performance. Several factors combine to …

The establishment of the intestinal microbiota is critical for the digestive and immune
systems. We studied the early development of the rectal microbiota in horse, a hindgut …

Simple Summary Several studies have described the bacterial composition in the intestines
of horses, and several factors of influence have been detected. Variation in the results …

Studies of microbiome variation in wildlife often emphasize host physiology and diet as
proximate selective pressures acting on host‐associated microbiota. In contrast, microbial …

Understanding gut microbiota similarities and differences across breeds in horses has the
potential to advance approaches aimed at personalized microbial modifications, particularly …

Shortly after birth the mammalian gut is colonized, by a transient microbiota, highly
susceptible to environment and diet, that eventually stabilizes and becomes the resident gut …

Gut microbiota play an important role in the health and disease of Asian elephants, however,
its characteristics at each stage of life have not been thoroughly investigated in maintaining …

Horses are large non-ruminant herbivores and rely on microbial fermentation for energy,
with more than half of their maintenance energy requirement coming from microbial …

The herbivorous horse is a hind gut fermenter because the gastrointestinal (GI) tract is
characterized by a well-developed cecum and colon, which, together with the GI …