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SUBMITTER: Andersen-Ranberg EU
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6164070 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Andersen-Ranberg Emilie U EU Barnes Christopher J CJ Rasmussen Linett L Salgado-Flores Alejandro A Grøndahl Carsten C Mosbacher Jesper B JB Hansen Anders J AJ Sundset Monica Alterskjær MA Schmidt Niels Martin NM Sonne Christian C
Microorganisms 20180725 3
Muskoxen (<i>Ovibos moschatus</i>) are ruminants adapted to a high-fibre diet. There is increasing interest in the role that gut microbes play in the digestion and utilization of these specialized diets but only limited data available on the gut microbiome of high-Arctic animals. In this study, we metabarcoded the 16S rRNA region of faecal samples from muskoxen of Northeast Greenland, Northwest Greenland and Norway, and quantified the effects of physiological and temporal factors on bacterial co ...[more]