TY  - JOUR
TI  - Rumen microbial community composition varies with diet and host, but a core microbiome is found across a wide geographical range
AU  - Gemma Henderson
AU  - Faith Cox
AU  - Siva Ganesh
AU  - Arjan Jonker
AU  - Wayne Young
AU  - Global Rumen Census Collaborators
AU  - Leticia Abecia
AU  - Erika Angarita
AU  - Paula Aravena
AU  - Graciela Nora Arenas
AU  - Claudia Ariza
AU  - Graeme T. Attwood
AU  - Jose Mauricio Avila
AU  - Jorge Ávila–Stagno
AU  - A. Bannink
AU  - Rolando Barahona Rosales
AU  - Mariano Batistotti
AU  - Mads F. Bertelsen
AU  - Aya Brown-Kav
AU  - A. Carvajal
AU  - Laura Cersosimo
AU  - Alex V. Chaves
AU  - John S. Church
AU  - Nicholas Clipson
AU  - Mario A. Cobos-Peralta
AU  - Adrian L. Cookson
AU  - Silvio Cravero
AU  - Omar Cristobal-Carballo
AU  - Katie Crosley
AU  - G. D. Cruz
AU  - María Esperanza Cerón‐Cucchi
AU  - Rodrigo de la Barra
AU  - Alexandre B. de Menezes
AU  - Edênio Detmann
AU  - K. Dieho
AU  - J. Dijkstra
AU  - William Lima Santiago dos Reis
AU  - M. E. R. Dugan
AU  - Seyed Hadi Ebrahimi
AU  - Emma Eythórsdóttir
AU  - Fabian Nde Fon
AU  - Martín Fraga
AU  - Francisco Franco
AU  - Chris Friedeman
AU  - Naoki Fukuma
AU  - Dragana Gagić
AU  - Isabelle D.M. Gangnat
AU  - Diego Grilli
AU  - Le Luo Guan
AU  - Vahideh Heidarian Miri
AU  - Emma Hernandez‐Sanabria
AU  - Alma Ximena Ibarra Gomez
AU  - O. A. Isah
AU  - Suzanne L. Ishaq
AU  - Elie Jami
AU  - Juan Jelincic
AU  - Juha Kantanen
AU  - William J. Kelly
AU  - Seon‐Ho Kim
AU  - Athol V. Klieve
AU  - Yasuo Kobayashi
AU  - Satoshi Koike
AU  - J Kopečný
AU  - Torsten Nygaard Kristensen
AU  - S.J. Krizsan
AU  - Hannah Lachance
AU  - Medora Lachman
AU  - W. R. Lamberson
AU  - Suzanne C. Lambie
AU  - Jan Lassen
AU  - Sinead C. Leahy
AU  - Sang-Suk Lee
AU  - Florian Leiber
AU  - E. Lewis
AU  - Bo Lin
AU  - Raúl Lira
AU  - Peter Lund
AU  - Edgar Macipe
AU  - Lovelia L. Mamuad
AU  - Hilário Cuquetto Mantovani
AU  - Gisela Marcoppido
AU  - Cristian Márquez
AU  - Cécile Martin
AU  - G. Martı́nez
AU  - María Eugenia Martínez
AU  - Olga Lucía Mayorga
AU  - Tim A. McAllister
AU  - Christopher S. McSweeney
AU  - Lorena Mestre
AU  - Elena Minnée
AU  - Makoto Mitsumori
AU  - Itzhak Mizrahi
AU  - Isabel Molina
AU  - A. Muenger
AU  - Camila Muñoz
AU  - Boštjan Murovec
AU  - J.R. Newbold
AU  - Victor Nsereko
AU  - M. O’Donovan
AU  - Sunday Adewale Okunade
PY  - 2015
JO  - Scientific Reports
DO  - 10.1038/srep14567
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1038/srep14567
AB  - Ruminant livestock are important sources of human food and global greenhouse gas emissions. Feed degradation and methane formation by ruminants rely on metabolic interactions between rumen microbes and affect ruminant productivity. Rumen and camelid foregut microbial community composition was determined in 742 samples from 32 animal species and 35 countries, to estimate if this was influenced by diet, host species, or geography. Similar bacteria and archaea dominated in nearly all samples, while protozoal communities were more variable. The dominant bacteria are poorly characterised, but the methanogenic archaea are better known and highly conserved across the world. This universality and limited diversity could make it possible to mitigate methane emissions by developing strategies that target the few dominant methanogens. Differences in microbial community compositions were predominantly attributable to diet, with the host being less influential. There were few strong co-occurrence patterns between microbes, suggesting that major metabolic interactions are non-selective rather than specific.
ER  -