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IN a previous communication1, McGaughey and Sellers stated that sheep, with permanent rumen fistulæ, fed on hay and mangolds, develop a rumen microflora similar to that described by Quin2 as occurring in sheep in South Africa. They pointed out that the organism found overwhelmingly predominant and apparently that termed Schizo-saccharomyces ovis by Quin is motile, and is apparently the same organism as that described by Woodcock and Lapage3 and now known as Selenomonas ruminantium (Certes).
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McGaughey, C. A., and Sellers, K. C., Nature, 161, 1014 (1948).
Qnin, J. I., Onderstepoort J. Vet. Sci., 18, 91 (1943).
Woodcock, H. M., and Lapage, G., Quart. J. Micr. Sci., 59, 431 (1943).
Ledingham, quoted by Woodcock and Lapage (see ref. 3).
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INGRAM, M., MCGAUGHEY, C. Microflora of the Rumen of the Sheep. Nature 162, 533–534 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162533b0
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