Adaptation to herbivory by the Tammar wallaby includes bacterial and glycoside hydrolase profiles different from other herbivores
Metagenomic and bioinformatic approaches were used to characterize plant biomass conversion within the foregut microbiome of Australia’s “model” marsupial, the Tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii). Like the termite hindgut and bovine rumen, key enzymes and modular structures characteristic of the “free enzyme” and “cellulosome” paradigms of cellulose solubilization remain either poorly represented or elusive to capture… [Read More]