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The effect of diet on rumen chitin content in sheep
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2017
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Measurement of in situ fungal populations is needed in order to determine the extent of their contribution to the ruminal digestive process. Since chitin is present in the cell wall of rumen fungi (Orpin, 1977), measurement of this polymer can be used to estimate fungal biomass and their growth in vitro (Rezaeian, 1996) and in vivo (Argyle and Douglas, 1989). The objective of this experiment was to study the effect of diet composition on the chitin content of both ruminal fluid and digesta solids as an index of the fungal population in the rumen.
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