Global distribution of carrageenan foraging pathways reveals widespread latent traits within the genetic "dark matter" of ruminant intestinal microbiomes

This study aimed to identify the adaptation of ruminant microbiomes to red seaweed M. japonica. study includes illumina sequencing of: bovine rumen and fecal metagenomes on and off M. japonica supplemented diets, non-bovine ruminant and (pseudo)ruminants fecal microbiomes enriched on seaweed polysaccharides, and bacterial isolates enriched from seaweed polysaccharides. Nanopore sequencing for select datasets was also performed.