Publications
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| rumen-like methanogens identified from the crop of the folivorous south american bird, the hoatzin (opisthocomus hoazin). | the hoatzin is the only known avian species with foregut fermentation. it is a primarily folivorous feeder and has a distended crop and lower/distal esophagus, which has evolved for the microbial fermentation of ingested feed. crop samples collected from 10 individual animals from the apure river area, apure state, venezuela were examined for the presence and density of methanogens using 16s rrna gene clone libraries and real-time pcr prepared from pooled and individual pcr products. a total of ... | 2009 | 19387486 |