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Substrate-Dependent Fermentation of Bamboo in Giant Panda Gut Microbiomes: Leaf Primarily to Ethanol and Pith to Lactate

The giant panda is known worldwide for having successfully moved to a diet almost exclusively based on bamboo. Provided that no lignocellulose-degrading enzyme was detected in panda’s genome, bamboo digestion is believed to depend on its gut microbiome. However, pandas retain the digestive system of...

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Autores principales: Scoma, Alberto, Khor, Way Cern, Coma, Marta, Heyer, Robert, Props, Ruben, Schoelynck, Jonas, Bouts, Tim, Benndorf, Dirk, Li, Desheng, Zhang, Hemin, Rabaey, Korneel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7145396/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32300339
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00530