Project description:In order to investigate the diurnal oscillations of ruminal protozoa, and their responses to the changes in different feeding patterns, we conducted an animal experiment by feeding the sheep ad libitum with a hay-based diet (50% of alfalfa hay and 46% of oats hay) and a grain-based diet (45% of corn meal and 11% of soybean meal) for 30 days, and ruminal fluid samples were collected at six different timepoints from T2 to T22 in one day, and the composition and diversity of the protozoal communities in rumen microbiomes of the sheep in the Grain-diet and Hay-diet groups at different timepoints were analyzed through 18S rRNA sequencing.
Project description:Here, we report 17 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) recovered from microbial consortia of forest and pasture soils in the Brazilian Eastern Amazon. The bacterial MAGs have the potential to act in important ecological processes, including carbohydrate degradation and sulfur and nitrogen cycling.