Bovine gut Metagenome

The cattle type-associated differences represent an opportunity to engineer specific gut microbiomes through selective breeding of the hosts. Understanding of the microbial communities in the gastrointestinal tract of Bos indicus is limited. This study aims comparative analysis of gut microbiome of Bos indicus and Holstein friesian, through 16S rRNA high throughput metagenome sequencing, as an attempt to identify compositional changes in the gut microbiota composition. This is the first study highlighting gut bacterial communities of Kasaragod Dwarf cattle, a non descriptive naive cattle variety with so many peculiar adaptive characteristics.