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Age-associated microbiome shows the giant panda lives on hemicelluloses, not on cellulose

The giant panda feeds almost exclusively on bamboo, a diet highly enriched in lignin and cellulose, but is characterized by a digestive tract similar to carnivores. It is still large unknown if and how the giant panda gut microbiota contributes to lignin and cellulose degradation. Here we show the g...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Wenping, Liu, Wenbin, Hou, Rong, Zhang, Liang, Schmitz-Esser, Stephan, Sun, Huaibo, Xie, Junjin, Zhang, Yunfei, Wang, Chengdong, Li, Lifeng, Yue, Bisong, Huang, He, Wang, Hairui, Shen, Fujun, Zhang, Zhihe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5931968/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29391488
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41396-018-0051-y