Feeding highly fermentable diets to ruminants is one strategy to increase energy intake. The
increase in short-chain fatty acid (SCFA) production and reduced ruminal pH associated …

Alterations in rumen epithelial structure and function during grain-induced subacute ruminal
acidosis (SARA) are largely undescribed. In this study, four mature nonlactating dairy cattle …

The gastrointestinal epithelium of the dairy cow and calf faces the challenge of protecting the
host from the contents of the luminal milieu while controlling the absorption and metabolism …

Metabolomics uses advanced analytical chemistry techniques to comprehensively measure
large numbers of small molecule metabolites in cells, tissues and biofluids. The ability to …

METHODS A Medline search of the English language literature was performed. Articles
published between 1966 and December, 1989 were searched using the MESH terms “…

… Steele, P. Smallwood, and others show that in the autumn, gray squirrels selectively
consume white oak acorns, but at the same time they also selectively cache red oak acorns, …

… Increases in surgeonfish populations after mass mortality of the sea urchin Diadema antillarum
in … Mass mortality of Diadema antillarum II. Effects on population densities and grazing …

Recent research has revealed potential advantages of feeding an elevated plane of nutrition
to calves during the preweaning period. However, calves fed more nutrients preweaning …

… indicate that gray squirrels scatterhoard apical fragments (>65% of individual feeding
trials, n = 85 observations) immediately following consumption of the basal half of the seed (Steele, …

This study was designed to investigate the relative effects of seed perishability and handling
time on the caching preferences of grey squirrels,Sciurus carolinensis, and to test the …