The equine gastrointestinal tract is a self-sufficient fermentation system, housing a complex
microbial consortium that acts synergistically and independently to break down complex …

Background As a domesticated species vital to humans, horses are raised worldwide as a
source of mechanical energy for sports, leisure, food production, and transportation. The gut …

Common culturing techniques and priorities bias our discovery towards specific traits that
may not be representative of microbial diversity in nature. So far, these biases have not been …

The nomenclature of prokaryotes is regulated by the rules of the International Code of
Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (ICNP) and is based on the Linnaean binomial system. The …

Gut bacterial communities have a profound influence on the health of humans and animals.
Early-life gut microbial community structure influences the development of immunological …

The nature and strength of interactions entertained among helminths and their host gut
microbiota remain largely unexplored. Using 40 naturally infected Welsh ponies, we tracked …

Introduction Nutritional and environmental stressors can disturb the gut microbiome of
horses which may ultimately decrease their health and performance. We hypothesized that …

Background With an increasing interest in the manipulation of methane produced from
livestock cultivation, the microbiome of Australian marsupials provides a unique ecological …

Prevailing 16S rRNA gene‐amplicon methods for characterizing the bacterial microbiome of
wildlife are economical, but result in coarse taxonomic classifications, are subject to primer …

Simple Summary Diarrhea in newborn piglets is one of the important problems for the
agricultural industry. It is believed that this disease is associated with changes in the …