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Buccal Swab Samples from Japanese Brown Cattle Fed with Limonite Reveal Altered Rumen Microbiome
- Kentaro Harakawa,
- Shinpei Kawarai,
- Kirill Kryukov,
- So Nakagawa,
- Shigeharu Moriya and
- Kazuhiko Imakawa
The areas of the Mount Aso grasslands in Kumamoto, Japan, are the primary location for the breeding of the Kumamoto strain of Japanese Brown cattle (JBRK). Although Aso limonite, deposited by volcanic ash and magma, has been commonly fed to pregnant...