AUTHOR=Zhu Yuan-ting , Yue Shuang-ming , Li Rui-tong , Qiu Shi-xiu , Xu Zhen-Ying , Wu Yi , Yao Jin , Zuo Yong , Li Ke-juan , Li Yang TITLE=Prebiotics Inulin Metabolism by Lactic Acid Bacteria From Young Rabbits JOURNAL=Frontiers in Veterinary Science VOLUME=8 YEAR=2021 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/veterinary-science/articles/10.3389/fvets.2021.719927 DOI=10.3389/fvets.2021.719927 ISSN=2297-1769 ABSTRACT=
Inulin as a commercial prebiotic could selectively promote the growth of beneficial gut microbes such as lactic acid bacteria (LAB). Whether LAB in rabbit gut possesses the capability to metabolize and utilize inulin is little known. Therefore, this study recovered 94 LAB strains from neonate rabbits and found that only 29% (28/94) could metabolize inulin with both species- and strain-specificity. The most vigorous inulin-degrading strain,