Cattle microbiome plays a vital role in cattle growth and performance and affects many economically important traits such as feed efficiency, milk/meat yield and quality, methane emission, immunity and health. To date, most cattle microbiome research has focused on metataxonomic and metagenomic characterization to reveal who are there and what they may do, preventing the determination of the active functional dynamics in vivo and their causal relationships with the traits. Therefore, there is an urgent need to combine other advanced omics approaches to improve microbiome analysis to determine their mode of actions and host–microbiome interactions in vivo. This review will critically discuss the current multi-omics microbiome research in beef and dairy cattle, aiming to provide insights on how the information generated can be applied to future strategies to improve production efficiency, health and welfare, and environment-friendliness in cattle production through microbiome manipulations.
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March 21 2022
Translational multi-omics microbiome research for strategies to improve cattle production and health
Yixin Wang;
Yixin Wang
1Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2P5
2Institute of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
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Le Luo Guan
1Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2P5
Correspondence: Le Luo Guan (lguan@ualberta.ca)
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Publisher: Portland Press Ltd
Received:
November 28 2021
Revision Received:
February 23 2022
Accepted:
March 01 2022
Online ISSN: 2397-8562
Print ISSN: 2397-8554
© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Portland Press Limited on behalf of the Biochemical Society and the Royal Society of Biology
2022
Emerg Top Life Sci (2022) 6 (2): 201–213.
Article history
Received:
November 28 2021
Revision Received:
February 23 2022
Accepted:
March 01 2022
Citation
Yixin Wang, Le Luo Guan; Translational multi-omics microbiome research for strategies to improve cattle production and health. Emerg Top Life Sci 13 April 2022; 6 (2): 201–213. doi: https://doi.org/10.1042/ETLS20210257
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