In vitro study and comparison of caecal methanogenesis and fermentation pattern in the brown hare (Lepus europaeus) and domestic rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)

MIŠTA, D., KRÓLICZEWSKA, B., MAROUNEK, M., PECKA, E., ZAWADZKI, W. & NICPOŃ, J. In vitro study and comparison of caecal methanogenesis and fermentation pattern in the brown hare (Lepus europaeus) and domestic rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). PLoS One, 2015
MIŠTA, D., KRÓLICZEWSKA, B., MAROUNEK, Milan, PECKA, E., ZAWADZKI, W. and NICPOŃ, J. In vitro study and comparison of caecal methanogenesis and fermentation pattern in the brown hare (Lepus europaeus) and domestic rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). PLoS One, 2015, 10, e0117117. ISSN 1932-6203.
Year2015
CathegoryScientific publication in impacted journals
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Abstract

The brown hare and the domestic rabbit are mid-sized herbivorous mammals and hindgut fermenters, though their digestive physiologies differ in some traits. The objective of this study was to estimate and compare the caecal microbial activity in hares and rabbits via an analysis of the following end-products of in vitro caecal fermentation: methane, total gas production, short chain fatty acids and ammonia concentration. Hare caecal methanogenesis occurred at a much lower level (0.25 mmol/kg for samples incubated without substrate and 0.22 mmol/kg for samples incubated with substrate) than that of the rabbit (15.49 and 11.73 mmol/kg, respectively) (P