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Microflora of the Rumen of the Sheep

Nature volume 162, pages 533–534 (1948)Cite this article

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IN a previous communication1, McGaughey and Sellers stated that sheep, with permanent rumen fistulæ, fed on hay and mangolds, develop a rumen microflora similar to that described by Quin2 as occurring in sheep in South Africa. They pointed out that the organism found overwhelmingly predominant and apparently that termed Schizo-saccharomyces ovis by Quin is motile, and is apparently the same organism as that described by Woodcock and Lapage3 and now known as Selenomonas ruminantium (Certes).

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  1. McGaughey, C. A., and Sellers, K. C., Nature, 161, 1014 (1948).

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  3. Woodcock, H. M., and Lapage, G., Quart. J. Micr. Sci., 59, 431 (1943).

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  1. Low Temperature Research Station, Cambridge

    M. INGRAM

  2. Institute of Animal Pathology, Cambridge

    C. A. MCGAUGHEY

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INGRAM, M., MCGAUGHEY, C. Microflora of the Rumen of the Sheep. Nature 162, 533–534 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162533b0

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