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Mick Watson

Edinburgh
As seen in: LinkedIn, Nature, Genome Biology, BioRxiv, Microbiology Research
Bioinformatics | (meta) genomics | Data science. Some politics. Views are all my own and do not represent past, current or future employer.
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The selective culture and enrichment of major rumen bacteria on three distinct anaerobic culture media

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By Alice Buckner, Laura Glendinning, Mark Stevens, Mick Watson
| BioRxiv
Abstract Ruminants play an important part in global food security, but also emit methane which contributes to global warming. Microbes in the rumen strongly influence the energy retention efficiency from the host's plant-based diet and produce methane as a by-product. While thousands of novel microbial genomes have been assembled from metagenome sequence data, their culturability is ill-defined. Here different media were used to isolate microbes from rumen fluid.
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Infectious bronchitis virus vaccination, but not the presence of XCR1, is correlated with large differences in chicken caecal microbiota

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By Laura Glendinning, Zhiguang Wu, Lonneke Vervelde, Mick Watson
| Microbiology Research
Article metrics loading... /content/journal/mgen/10.1099/mgen.0.001289 Download as PowerPoint /deliver/fulltext/mgen/10/9/mgen001289.html?itemId=/content/journal/mgen/10.1099/mgen.0.001289&mimeType=html&fmt=ahah References Diaz Carrasco JM, Casanova NA, Fernández Miyakawa ME. Microbiota, gut health and chicken productivity: what is the connection?. Microorganisms 2019; 7:374 [View Article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar] Broom LJ, Kogut MH.
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Determining the culturability of the bovine rumen bacterial and archaeal microbiota

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By Alice Buckner, Laura Glendinning, Mark Stevens, Mick Watson
| BioRxiv
Abstract Ruminants play an important part in global food security, but also emit methane which contributes to global warming. Microbes in the rumen play a key role in energy retention from the host's plant-based diet and the produce methane as a by-product of this digestion. While many thousands of novel microbial genomes have been assembled from metagenome sequence data, the extent to which these can be cultured is ill-defined.
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