Review: Comparative methane production in mammalian herbivores

Hot topic: Selecting cattle for low residual feed intake did not affect daily methane production but increased methane yield

(2019) H.E. Flay et al.   JOURNAL OF DAIRY SCIENCE

Body mass predicts isotope enrichment in herbivorous mammals

(2018) Julia V. Tejada-Lara et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Within trophic level shifts in collagen-carbonate stable carbon isotope spacing are propagated by diet and digestive physiology in large mammal herbivores

(2018) Daryl Codron et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Digestive efficiency, digesta passage, resting metabolism and methane production in captive juvenile nutria (Myocastor coypus)

(2018) K. B. Hagen et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE RESEARCH

Kinetics of solutes and particles of different size in the digestive tract of cattle of 0.5-10 years of age, and relationships with methane production

(2017) F. Grandl et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY AND ANIMAL NUTRITION

Between-cow variation in digestion and rumen fermentation variables associated with methane production

(2017) E.H. Cabezas-Garcia et al.   JOURNAL OF DAIRY SCIENCE

Transient changes in milk production efficiency and bacterial community composition resulting from near-total exchange of ruminal contents between high- and low-efficiency Holstein cows

(2017) Paul J. Weimer et al.   JOURNAL OF DAIRY SCIENCE

Physiological adaptations of ruminants and their potential relevance for production systems

(2017) Marcus Clauss et al.   REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE ZOOTECNIA-BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE

Scaling methane emissions in ruminants and global estimates in wild populations

(2017) F.J. Pérez-Barbería   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Influence of ruminal methane on digesta retention and digestive physiology in non-lactating dairy cattle

(2016) Marie T. Dittmann et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Methane production by two non-ruminant foregut-fermenting herbivores: The collared peccary ( Pecari tajacu ) and the pygmy hippopotamus ( Hexaprotodon liberiensis )

(2016) Catharina Vendl et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Specific microbiome-dependent mechanisms underlie the energy harvest efficiency of ruminants

(2016) Sheerli Kruger Ben Shabat et al.   ISME Journal

Effect of divergence in phenotypic residual feed intake on methane emissions, ruminal fermentation, and apparent whole-tract digestibility of beef heifers across three contrasting diets1

(2016) R. P. McDonnell et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE

Bovine Host Genetic Variation Influences Rumen Microbial Methane Production with Best Selection Criterion for Low Methane Emitting and Efficiently Feed Converting Hosts Based on Metagenomic Gene Abundance

(2016) Rainer Roehe et al.   PLoS Genetics

Bromochloromethane, a Methane Analogue, Affects the Microbiota and Metabolic Profiles of the Rat Gastrointestinal Tract

(2015) Yu-Xiang Yang et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Comparison of gut fill in sheep (Ovis aries) measured by intake, digestibility, and digesta retention compared with measurements at harvest

(2015) Adam Munn et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Comparative methane emission by ratites: Differences in food intake and digesta retention level out methane production

(2015) Samuel Frei et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

The importance of considering animal body mass in IPCC greenhouse inventories and the underappreciated role of wild herbivores

(2015) Felisa A. Smith et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Digestive physiology, metabolism and methane production of captive Linné's two-toed sloths (Choloepus didactylus)

(2015) C. Vendl et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY AND ANIMAL NUTRITION

Methane production and methanogen levels in steers that differ in residual gain123

(2015) H. C. Freetly et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE

Decreasing methane yield with increasing food intake keeps daily methane emissions constant in two foregut fermenting marsupials, the western grey kangaroo and red kangaroo

(2015) C. Vendl et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Exploring the influence of ancient and historic megaherbivore extirpations on the global methane budget

(2015) Felisa A. Smith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

An inhibitor persistently decreased enteric methane emission from dairy cows with no negative effect on milk production

(2015) Alexander N. Hristov et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The effects of fresh forages and feed intake level on digesta kinetics and enteric methane emissions from sheep

(2014) K.J. Hammond et al.   ANIMAL FEED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Human Genetics Shape the Gut Microbiome

(2014) Julia K. Goodrich et al.   CELL

Does body mass convey a digestive advantage for large herbivores?

(2014) Patrick Steuer et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Low ambient temperature elevates plasma triiodothyronine concentrations while reducing digesta mean retention time and methane yield in sheep

(2014) M. C. Barnett et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY AND ANIMAL NUTRITION

Methane Emission by Camelids

(2014) Marie T. Dittmann et al.   PLoS One

Low-methane yield sheep have smaller rumens and shorter rumen retention time

(2013) John P. Goopy et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Herbivory and Body Size: Allometries of Diet Quality and Gastrointestinal Physiology, and Implications for Herbivore Ecology and Dinosaur Gigantism

(2013) Marcus Clauss et al.   PLoS One

Triiodothyronine influences digesta kinetics and methane yield in sheep

(2013) M. C. Barnett et al.   Animal Production Science

Methanogenic Population and CH4Production in Swedish Dairy Cows Fed Different Levels of Forage

(2012) R. Danielsson et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Assessing the Jarman–Bell Principle: Scaling of intake, digestibility, retention time and gut fill with body mass in mammalian herbivores

(2012) Dennis W.H. Müller et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Could methane produced by sauropod dinosaurs have helped drive Mesozoic climate warmth?

(2012) David M. Wilkinson et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Effect of bromochloromethane on methane emission, rumen fermentation pattern, milk yield, and fatty acid profile in lactating dairy goats

(2012) L. Abecia et al.   JOURNAL OF DAIRY SCIENCE

Gene-centric metagenomics analysis of feline intestinal microbiome using 454 junior pyrosequencing

(2012) Hein Min Tun et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS

Chloroform decreases rumen methanogenesis and methanogen populations without altering rumen function in cattle

(2011) T. Knight et al.   ANIMAL FEED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Retention of different-sized particles and derived gut fill estimate in tammar wallabies (Macropus eugenii): Physiological and methodological considerations

(2011) Adam J. Munn et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

In Vitro Fermentation of Dietary Carbohydrates Consumed by African Apes and Monkeys: Preliminary Results for Interpreting Microbial and Digestive Strategy

(2011) Joanna E. Lambert et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

The effects of methane and hydrogen gases produced by enteric bacteria on ileal motility and colonic transit time

(2011) J. Jahng et al.   NEUROGASTROENTEROLOGY AND MOTILITY

Dichotomy of eutherian reproduction and metabolism

(2011) Dennis W. H. Müller et al.   OIKOS

Evolutionary adaptations of ruminants and their potential relevance for modern production systems

(2010) M. Clauss et al.   Animal

Methane output of rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) and guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus) fed a hay-only diet: Implications for the scaling of methane production with body mass in non-ruminant mammalian herbivores

(2010) Ragna Franz et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Host specificity of the ruminal bacterial community in the dairy cow following near-total exchange of ruminal contents1

(2010) P.J. Weimer et al.   JOURNAL OF DAIRY SCIENCE

Methane emissions from extinct megafauna

(2010) Felisa A. Smith et al.   Nature Geoscience

Mechanisms of Microbial Hydrogen Disposal in the Human Colon and Implications for Health and Disease

(2010) Noriko Nakamura et al.   Annual Review of Food Science and Technology

Effects of dietary nitrate on fermentation, methane production and digesta kinetics in sheep

(2010) J. V. Nolan et al.   Animal Production Science

Microbial diversity in ostrich ceca as revealed by 16S ribosomal RNA gene clone library and detection of novel Fibrobacter species

(2009) Hiroki Matsui et al.   ANAEROBE

Assessment of the Microbial Ecology of Ruminal Methanogens in Cattle with Different Feed Efficiencies

(2009) M. Zhou et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Geographical variation in predictors of mammalian extinction risk: big is bad, but only in the tropics

(2009) Susanne A. Fritz et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Hydrogen utilising bacteria from the forestomach of eastern grey (Macropus giganteus) and red (Macropus rufus) kangaroos

(2009) D. Ouwerkerk et al.   Animal Production Science

Methane emissions from dairy cattle divergently selected for bloat susceptibility

(2008) C. S. Pinares-Patiño et al.   Australian journal of experimental agriculture