• Fungal and ciliate protozoa are the main rumen microbes associated with methane emissions in dairy cattle 

      López García, Adrián; Saborío Montero, Alejandro; Gutiérrez Rivas, Mónica; Atxaerandio Galdos, Raquel; Goiri Zamora, Idoia; García Rodríguez, Aser; Jiménez Montero, José Antonio; González Verdejo, Carmen; Tamames, Javier; Puente Sánchez, Fernando; Serrano Noreña, Magdalena; Carrasco Polaino, Rafael; Ovilo Martin, Cristina; González Recio, Oscar (2022-01-30)
      Background: Mitigating the effects of global warming has become the main challenge for humanity in recent decades. Livestock farming contributes to greenhouse gas emissions, with an important output of methane from enteric ...
    • Improving phenotypic prediction in dairy cattle breeding using the metagenome 

      González Recio, Oscar; Saborío Montero, Alejandro; López García, Adrián; Delgado, Beatriz; Ovilo Martin, Cristina (2019-11-18)
      Ruminants evolved from Artiodactyla in the Eocene 50–70 million years ago. In that period, grass began to populate the largest land surface on Earth. Since then, ruminants and their microbiota have evolved together in ...
    • Risk factors associated with milk fever occurrence in grazing dairy cattle 

      Saborío Montero, Alejandro; Vargas Leitón, Bernardo; Romero Zúñiga, Juan José; Sánchez González, Jorge Manuel (2017-11-30)
      The aim of this study was to determine risk factors associated with milk fever (MF) occurrence in Costa Rican grazing dairy cattle. A total of 69,870 cows from 126 dairy herds were included in the study. Data were collected ...