Redundancy, resilience, and host specificity of the ruminal microbiota: implications for engineering improved ruminal fermentations

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The ruminal microbial community exhibits redundancy and resilience, providing stability but challenging efforts to engineer it for improved livestock digestion or reduced methane. Introduced microbes often fail due to competition, except for specialists filling unoccupied niches.

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