A group of Japanese and American scientists has won this year's Ig Nobel Prize in physiology for discovering that many ...

Overload of undigested nutrients reaching the hindgut or malnutrition induced intestinal damage may both cause imbalanced microbial populations in the gut. It is this so-called ‘microbial ...

ecologically or economically compelling examples (see other articles in this Focus issue on Symbiosis), including the associations that are present in the cow rumen and termite hindgut ...

Their stomachs are relatively small compared to their size, so they rely on fermenting fibrous plant material in their hindgut to extract nutrients effectively. In 1961, a horse named Pony Express ...

Our lab is focused on dairy cattle nutrition and the impact nutrition has on cow health. Current projects include: evaluating the impact of buffers on hindgut starch fermentation, assessing ...