Communications Biology (Apr 2022)

Bovine host genome acts on rumen microbiome function linked to methane emissions

  • Marina Martínez-Álvaro,
  • Marc D. Auffret,
  • Carol-Anne Duthie,
  • Richard J. Dewhurst,
  • Matthew A. Cleveland,
  • Mick Watson,
  • Rainer Roehe

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03293-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Metagenomes from 359 steers demonstrate a strong relationship between host genomics and microbial gene abundances, particularly those correlated with bovine emissions of methane.