Links between the rumen microbiota, methane emissions and feed efficiency of finishing steers offered dietary lipid and nitrate supplementation

• Jenna M. Bowen ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: jenna.bowen@sruc.ac.uk

  Current address: SRUC, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

  Affiliations Animal & Grassland Research and Innovation Centre, Teagasc, Grange, Dunsany, Co. Meath, Ireland, IBERS, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, Wales, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7398-8353

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• Paul Cormican,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Animal & Grassland Research and Innovation Centre, Teagasc, Grange, Dunsany, Co. Meath, Ireland

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• Susan J. Lister,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation IBERS, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, Wales, United Kingdom

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• Matthew S. McCabe,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Animal & Grassland Research and Innovation Centre, Teagasc, Grange, Dunsany, Co. Meath, Ireland

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• Carol-Anne Duthie,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation SRUC, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

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• Rainer Roehe,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation SRUC, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

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• Richard J. Dewhurst

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation SRUC, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

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