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Cloning, Structure, and Expression of Genes of the Anaerobic Rumen Bacteria

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Genetics and Molecular Biology of Anaerobic Bacteria

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The anaerobic rumen bacteria comprise 30 or so known species of obligately anaerobic bacteria that may be reproducibly isolated from the contents of the ruminant forestomach. Together with the anaerobic protozoa and fungi also found ubiquitously in this ecosystem, these bacteria obtain carbon and energy by degrading plant biomass. In so doing, they produce acetic, butyric, and propionic acids as major fermentation products, and generate microbial biomass that, with undegraded dietary protein, serves as the protein source for the ruminant animal. The intrinsic interest in these organisms derives from their considerable metabolic, taxonomic, and phylogenetic diversity, and their economic importance may be gauged by the prominence of ruminants in world agriculture.

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Teather, R.M., Gilbert, H.J., Hazlewood, G.P. (1993). Cloning, Structure, and Expression of Genes of the Anaerobic Rumen Bacteria. In: Sebald, M. (eds) Genetics and Molecular Biology of Anaerobic Bacteria. Brock/Springer Series in Contemporary Bioscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7087-5_42

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