Evidence for Lignin Oxidation by the Giant Panda Fecal Microbiome

The digestion of lignin and lignin-related phenolic compounds from bamboo by giant pandas has puzzled scientists because of the lack of lignin-degrading genes in the genome of the bamboo-feeding animals. We constructed a 16S rRNA gene library from the microorganisms derived from the giant panda fece...

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Main Authors: Fang, Wei, Fang, Zemin, Zhou, Peng, Chang, Fei, Hong, Yuzhi, Zhang, Xuecheng, Peng, Hui, Xiao, Yazhong
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3508987/