The nasopharyngeal, ruminal, and vaginal microbiota and the core taxa shared across these microbiomes in virgin yearling heifers exposed to divergent in utero nutrition during their first trimester of gestation and in pregnant beef heifers in response to mineral supplementation
S. Amat, D. B. Holman, K. Schmidt, A. C. B. Menezes, F. Baumgaertner, T. Winders, J. D. Kirsch, T. Liu, T. D. Schwinghamer, K. K. Sedivec, C. R. Dahlen
This study examines the microbiota of nasopharyngeal, ruminal, and vaginal samples in beef heifers exposed to different in utero nutrition and mineral supplementation, finding little impact on microbiome diversity and identifying shared microbial taxa across body sites.
bioRxiv · Jun 3, 2021Microbiology