Relationship between Milk Microbial Community and Mammary Gland Health of Dairy Cows as Well as Gastrointestinal Development of Calves
The development in culture-independent techniques and bioinformatics analysis led to a new research view of milk microbial community.It is that milk microbial community has a great diversity and multifaceted biological role,which can directly reflect metabolic level of mammary gland and affect nutritional physiology and health of newborn animals.In this review,thus,we summarized the latest results on milk microbial community,introduced the endogenous hypothetical pathway of milk microorganisms,discussed roles of milk microbial community in mammary gland health of dairy cows and gastrointestinal development of calves,and the application of 16S genomics and meta-genomics in milk microbial studies was also summarized.