Natural and artificial feeding management before weaning promote different rumen microbial colonization but not differences in gene expression levels at the rumen epithelium of newborn goats

Leticia Abecia; Elisabeth Jiménez; Gonzalo Martínez-Fernandez; A. Ignacio Martín-García; Eva Ramos-Morales; Eric Pinloche; Stuart E. Denman; C. Jamie Newbold; David R. Yáñez-Ruiz

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0182235

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Natural and artificial feeding management before weaning promote different rumen microbial colonization but not differences in gene expression levels at the rumen epithelium of newborn goats

Leticia Abecia,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Estación Experimental del Zaidín (CSIC), Granada, Spain
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Elisabeth Jiménez,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Estación Experimental del Zaidín (CSIC), Granada, Spain
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Gonzalo Martínez-Fernandez,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Estación Experimental del Zaidín (CSIC), Granada, Spain, CSIRO, Agriculture & Food Flagship, Queensland Bioscience Precinct, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia
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A. Ignacio Martín-García,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Estación Experimental del Zaidín (CSIC), Granada, Spain
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Eva Ramos-Morales,

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Estación Experimental del Zaidín (CSIC), Granada, Spain, IBERS, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
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Eric Pinloche,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation IBERS, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
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Stuart E. Denman,

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation CSIRO, Agriculture & Food Flagship, Queensland Bioscience Precinct, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia
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C. Jamie Newbold,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation IBERS, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
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David R. Yáñez-Ruiz

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: david.yanez@eez.csic.es

Affiliation Estación Experimental del Zaidín (CSIC), Granada, Spain

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4397-3905

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Natural and artificial feeding management before weaning promote different rumen microbial colonization but not differences in gene expression levels at the rumen epithelium of newborn goats

Leticia Abecia,
Elisabeth Jiménez,
Gonzalo Martínez-Fernandez,
A. Ignacio Martín-García,
Eva Ramos-Morales,
Eric Pinloche,
Stuart E. Denman,
C. Jamie Newbold,
David R. Yáñez-Ruiz

Published: August 16, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0182235

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