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- Title
Quantitative qPCR Analysis of Ruminal Microorganisms in Beef Cattle Grazing in Pastures in the Rainy Season and Supplemented with Different Protein Levels.
- Authors
Da Silva-Marques, Renata Pereira; Zervoudakis, Joanis Tilemahos; Nakazato, Luciano; Da Silva Cabral, Luciano; Hatamoto-Zervoudakis, Luciana Keiko; Da Silva, Maria Isabel Leite; Do Nascimento Matos, Núbia Bezerra; Pitchenin, Letícia Camara
- Abstract
We tested the hypothesis that supplementation with three protein levels improves fermentation parameters without changing the rumen microbial population of grazing beef cattle in the rainy season. Four rumen-cannulated Nellore bulls (432 ± 21 kg of body weight) were used in a 4 × 4 Latin square design with four supplements and four experimental periods of 21 days each. The treatments were mineral supplement (ad libitum) and supplements with low, medium (MPS), and high protein supplement (HPS), supplying 106, 408, and 601 g/day of CP, respectively. The abundance of each target taxon was calculated as a fraction of the total 16S rRNA gene copies in the samples, using taxon-specific and domain bacteria primers. Supplemented animals showed lower (P < 0.05) proportions of Ruminococcus flavefaciens and greater (P < 0.05) proportions of Ruminococcus albus and Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens than animals that received only the mineral supplement. The HPS supplement resulted in higher (P < 0.05) proportions of Fibrobacter succinogenes, R. flavefaciens, and B. fibrisolvens and lower (P < 0.05) proportions of R. albus than the MPS supplement. Based on our results, high protein supplementation improves the ruminal conditions and facilitates the growth of cellulolytic bacteria in the rumen of bulls on pastures during the rainy season.
- Subjects
POLYMERASE chain reaction; RUMEN microbiology; BEEF cattle feeding &; feeds; DIETARY supplements; RUMINOCOCCUS flavefaciens
- Publication
Current Microbiology, 2018, Vol 75, Issue 8, p1025
- ISSN
0343-8651
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00284-018-1484-2