Fecal microbiome of cattle with a change in diet. Bos taurus

In recent years, stray cattle in Hong Kong have gained access to food scraps from nearby barbeque sites and have become "omnivorous". Due to this change of diet, we hypothesized that there is a difference in gut microbiota profiles between the "omnivorous" cattle and traditional herbivorous cattle. In this study, we characterized and compared the bacterial diversity associated with these cattle by using 16S rRNA gene-based sequencing. The variable V3-V4 region of the 16S rRNA gene were amplified and sequenced.