selected publications
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academic article
- Predicting residual feed intake status using rumen microbial profiles in ewe lambs. Journal of Animal Science. 97:2878-2888. 2019
- Poor feed efficiency in sheep is associated with several structural abnormalities in the community metabolic network of their ruminal microbes. Journal of Animal Science. 96:2113-2124. 2018
- Diet and feed efficiency status affect rumen microbial profiles of sheep. Small Ruminant Research. 156:12-19. 2017
- Diet shifts provoke complex and variable changes in the metabolic networks of the ruminal microbiome. Microbiome. 5.0. 2017
- The relationship of residual feed intake and visceral organ size in growing lambs fed a concentrate- or forage-based diet. Livestock Science. 176:85-90. 2015
- The effect of residual feed intake status on rumen microbial profiles in ewe lambs. Proceedings of the Western Section American Society of Animal Science. 66:133-137. 2015
- Diet Alters Both the Structure and Taxonomy of the Ovine Gut Microbial Ecosystem. DNA Research: an International Journal for Rapid Publication of Reports on Genes and Genomes. 21:115-125. 2014
- The effect of diet and feed efficiency status on small intestinal mRNA expression of angiogenic factors in growing lambs. Proceedings of the Western Section American Society of Animal Science. 64:396-399. 2013
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article
- The effect of diet and feed efficiency status on rumen microbial profiles in sheep 2013
- The effect of diet on feed intake traits and relationships with carcass traits in sheep 2012
- The relationship of feed efficiency and visceral organ size in growing lambs fed a concentrate or forage-based diet 2012
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conference paper
- Effect of high sulfate water on rumen microbial populations in lambs. Plant and Animal Genome Meeting. 2016
- Combining bioinformatics and statistical modeling to understand the ecology of the rumen microbial ecosystem in sheep. Plant and Animal Genome Meeting. 2014
- Jejunal expression of intestinal growth-promoting genes in high and low efficiency lambs. Plant and Animal Genome Meeting. 2014
- Effect of diet type and feed efficiency status on rumen microbial populations in sheep. Gases & Animal Agriculture Conference. 2013
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conference poster
- Effects of diet and feed efficiency on rumen microbial profiles in sheep. Plant and Animal Genome Meeting. 2015
- Rumen microbial populations associated with feed efficiency in forage-fed lambs. Plant and Animal Genome Meeting. 2015
- The effect of diet on rumen microbial profiles in sheep. Plant and Animal Genome Meeting. 2013
- The effect of diet on feed intake and performance traits in sheep. Colorado Nutrition Roundtable. 2012
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report