bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.18.423411; this version posted December 18, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. 1 Dominant Remodeling of Cattle Rumen Microbiome by Schedonorus arundinaceus (Tall 2 Fescue) KY-31 Carrying a Fungal Endophyte 3 4 Bela Haifa Khairunisa1, Dwi Susanti2#a, Usha Loganathan2, Christopher D. Teutsch3#b, Brian T. 5 Campbell3#c, David Fiske4†, Carol A. Wilkinson3, Frank O. Aylward5, Biswarup Mukhopadhyay2* 6 7 8 1Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA 9 2Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA 10 3Southern Piedmont Agricultural Research and Extension Center, Virginia Tech, Blackstone, VA, 11 USA 12 4Shennandoah Valley Agricultural Research and Extension Center, Virginia Tech, Raphine, VA, 13 USA 14 5Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA. 15 #aCurrent address: Elanco Animal Health, Greenfield, IN, USA. 16 #bCurrent address: University of Kentucky Research and Education Center, Princeton, KY, USA. 17 #cPresent address: Archer Daniels Midland Company, Decatur, IL, USA. 18 19 20 *Corresponding Author 21 E-mail:
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