The gut microbiota of ruminants plays a central role in the nutrition of its host: it directly affects his health and his ability to produce both products of interest for the human diet and undesirable products such as methane.
Ruminants have co-evolved with microorganisms capable of degrading plant fibers into absorbable chemical compounds that are nutritional precursors or bioactive compounds: these microbiota are likely to directly influence the animals' traits in the same way that the animal's genome can. Numerous studies have shown links between production or health traits and the gut microbiota.
Studies on ruminal microbiota also point out a significant effect of the “host” factor, and few publications reported results concerning the impact of host genetics on the composition of ruminal microbiota.
The objective of our proposal is to gather the literature on a new approach to animal nutrition aimed at adapting the diet to the genetics of the animals in order to optimize the synergy between the genome and the metagenome in the expression of animal traits. To do this, we need to understand the relationship between the metagenome and the genome and how they interact in the expression of phenotypes. Such studies are rare, recent and scattered in different journals. This special issue would bring together the results of teams working on the subject and the methods appropriate to its study to offer readers an original source, with new insights and many perspectives of interest for ruminant nutrition.
- microbiobality and its role in explaining animal traits,
- existing and future statistical tools to assess microbiability
- metagenetic determinism of ruminant traits
Paper could propose taxonomic (Metagenomics, Metabarcoding) and/or functionnal (Metatranscriptomics, Metaproteomics, Metabolomics , Functional Inference) approaches of ruminal microbiota.
Please note that: Systems Microbiology does not consider descriptive studies that are solely based on amplicon (eg. 16S rRNA) profiles, unless they are accompanied by a clear hypothesis and experimentation and provide insight into the microbiological system or process being studied. If your manuscript include amplicon profiles please make sure that your abstract include a clear statement on why we should consider your manuscript. Especially helpful would be to specify in your abstract the methods used to test the hypothesis and how the reported results support and validate this hypothesis.
The gut microbiota of ruminants plays a central role in the nutrition of its host: it directly affects his health and his ability to produce both products of interest for the human diet and undesirable products such as methane.
Ruminants have co-evolved with microorganisms capable of degrading plant fibers into absorbable chemical compounds that are nutritional precursors or bioactive compounds: these microbiota are likely to directly influence the animals' traits in the same way that the animal's genome can. Numerous studies have shown links between production or health traits and the gut microbiota.
Studies on ruminal microbiota also point out a significant effect of the “host” factor, and few publications reported results concerning the impact of host genetics on the composition of ruminal microbiota.
The objective of our proposal is to gather the literature on a new approach to animal nutrition aimed at adapting the diet to the genetics of the animals in order to optimize the synergy between the genome and the metagenome in the expression of animal traits. To do this, we need to understand the relationship between the metagenome and the genome and how they interact in the expression of phenotypes. Such studies are rare, recent and scattered in different journals. This special issue would bring together the results of teams working on the subject and the methods appropriate to its study to offer readers an original source, with new insights and many perspectives of interest for ruminant nutrition.
- microbiobality and its role in explaining animal traits,
- existing and future statistical tools to assess microbiability
- metagenetic determinism of ruminant traits
Paper could propose taxonomic (Metagenomics, Metabarcoding) and/or functionnal (Metatranscriptomics, Metaproteomics, Metabolomics , Functional Inference) approaches of ruminal microbiota.
Please note that: Systems Microbiology does not consider descriptive studies that are solely based on amplicon (eg. 16S rRNA) profiles, unless they are accompanied by a clear hypothesis and experimentation and provide insight into the microbiological system or process being studied. If your manuscript include amplicon profiles please make sure that your abstract include a clear statement on why we should consider your manuscript. Especially helpful would be to specify in your abstract the methods used to test the hypothesis and how the reported results support and validate this hypothesis.