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Terrestrial Vertebrate Animal Metagenomics, Wild Ruminants

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Microbiome of wild ruminants

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Little work has been done on the microbiome of wild ruminants using culture-independent methods. This entry aims to cover some of the research done to date on wild ruminants. Future research on these microorganisms from understudied ruminant species may improve other microbiological systems, such as waste treatment, bioenergy production from plant biomass, or efficiency of digestion in domestic livestock.

Introduction

The ability to sample nearly any environment and massively sequence any or all of the microorganisms present without the constraints of culturing has revolutionized the field of microbiology. Despite these advances, modern studies are not without the limitations of proper primer design, genomic DNA yield, sequence coverage, and sequencing errors. Additionally, many studies on the microorganisms of the digestive tract are limited by the availability, freshness, and sample location in the tract. Recently, it was shown that...

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  1. Department of Animal Sciences, University of Vermont, 203 Terrill Bldg, 570 Main Street, Burlington, VT, 05405-0148, USA

    Suzanne Ishaq & André-Denis G. Wright

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Correspondence to Suzanne Ishaq .

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  1. J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), Rockville, Maryland, USA

    Karen E. Nelson

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Ishaq, S., Wright, AD.G. (2013). Terrestrial Vertebrate Animal Metagenomics, Wild Ruminants. In: Nelson, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Metagenomics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6418-1_20-2

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