Learn more about the role of the rumen and lower gut microorganisms and their impact on the host’s performance, nutrition, and health. The ruminant is a fascinating animal due to its ability to convert feed and forage into energy and microbial protein thanks to the activity of its gut microbial community: bacteria, archaea, protozoa, and fungi. This page features microbes found in the gut of ruminants.

This publication in the Cattle Gut Microbes Series will introduce and discuss microbes, or groups of microbes, that are important to cattle production.

Trueperella pyogenes (T. pyogenes; formerly known as Actinomyces pyogenes and Arcanobacterium pyogenes) is a rod-shaped, gram-positive, facultative anaerobe.

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Follow this link to view all of the interactive presentations for the Rumen Microbes series.