Abstract:While the activities of different microbes in the rumen have been shown to modulate the host’s ability to utilize plant biomass, microbes colonizing the host-rumen interface have received little attention. Here, we show that highly abundant Campylobacteraceae on the rumen epithelia have recently diverged into two populations, one of which has become a sink for acetate, the main carbon source for the host. Genomic comparisons suggest that the populations were structured by genome-wide selective sweeps after whi… Show more
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