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Metagenomic Insights into Herbivore Gut: An Application-Based Perspective

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‘Herbivores possess a fascinating gut ecosystem explicitly evolved to convert plant biomass into high quality proteins and energy constituents. In post-genomic era, the herbivore gut microbiota is viewed as capable sources of precious enzymes, genes and therapeutic biomolecules. Culture-independent metagenomic approaches have proven to be useful to unravel and utilize the gut microbiota for nutrition, health and industrial applications’.

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  1. ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Regional Station, Palampur, 176 061, India

    Birbal Singh, Gorakh Mal, Rinku Sharma & Philem S. Kapoor

  2. Centre for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Shahpur, 176 206, India

    Dixit Sharma & Gagandeep Singh

  3. CSK HPKVV, Palampur, 176 061, India

    Sarbjit S. Kanwar

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Singh, B. et al. (2017). Metagenomic Insights into Herbivore Gut: An Application-Based Perspective. In: Kalia, V., Shouche, Y., Purohit, H., Rahi, P. (eds) Mining of Microbial Wealth and MetaGenomics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5708-3_12

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