... influence on dental microwear than their concentration, with different sizes creating opposing effects in terms of surface roughness. Microtexture Feeding experiment Ruminant Diet Abrasives Tooth wear Tooth wear is an important factor for dietary reconstruction, and herbivores have been...

... that in this experiment, the diets were designed to mainly comprise pellets, and the provided proportion of hay was therefore lower than the normal forage ration for ruminants. Water was available for ad libitum consumption at all times. Samples of all diet items, as well as feces of all animals, were analyzed for acid...

...Friederike Stumpff; Maria-Ifigenia Georgi; Lars Mundhenk; Imtiaz Rabbani; Michael Fromm; Holger Martens; Dorothee Günzel SUMMARY The forestomachs of cows and sheep have historically served as important models for the study of epithelial transport. Thus, the ruminal epithelium was among the first...