The influence of prenatal nutrition on ruminal microbiome of beef cattle
Édison Furlan, Guilherme Henrique Gebim Polizel, Arícia Christofaro Fernandes, Bárbara Carolina Teixeira Prati, Gabriela do Vale Pombo, Germán Darío Ramírez-Zamudio, Heidge Fukumasu, Miguel Henrique de Almeida Santana · 2026
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Édison Furlan and co-authors ask whether a mother's feed during pregnancy shapes her calf's gut microbes for life. Their 2025 study follows Nellore bulls born to first-time mothers split into two feed plans: plain minerals, or minerals plus protein and energy, across the whole pregnancy. Calves then lived under one shared plan to slaughter. Rumen fluid from grown bulls gave microbe reads by gene sequencing.
Fed-mother offspring held more of two microbe groups tied to fiber and protein work, and less of another. Pathways for starch use and nitrogen handling ran richer. The shifts were modest yet real, the team says.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Édison Furlan, Guilherme Henrique Gebim Polizel, Arícia Christofaro Fernandes, Bárbara Carolina Teixeira Prati, Gabriela do Vale Pombo, Germán Darío Ramírez-Zamudio, Heidge Fukumasu, Miguel Henrique de Almeida Santana |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 30 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |