Gut microbiome of the largest living rodent harbors unprecedented enzymatic systems to degrade plant polysaccharides

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• who: Lucelia Cabral from the Laboratory University of National de la Recherche Agronomique, USC , AFMB, Marseille, France have published the research work: Gut microbiome of the largest living rodent harbors unprecedented enzymatic systems to degrade plant polysaccharides, in the Journal: NATURE COMMUNICATIONS NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
• what: The authors investigated how the gut microbiota of the largest living rodent, capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) known as "master of the grasses", can efficiently depolymerize and utilize recalcitrant plant polysaccharides.
• how: To understand the ability of capybara gut microbiota to convert plant polysaccharides into edible sugars MG and MT . . .
  

   

  

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