Overview: Extremely diverse and complicated bacterial and protozoanpopulations inhabit the rumen and intestinal tract of animals, andthere is adelicate balance among the individual populations withinthis complexmicrobial community.This authoritative edited volume,the first ina two-volume set, reviews the gut environment and thefermentationstaking place in animal digestive tracts. It is anessential source ofreference for microbial ecologists andphysiologists, medicalmicrobiologists and gastroenterologists,biochemists, nutritionists,veterinarians and animal scientists, andwildlife ecologists.978
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