Summary. Anaerobic fungi were isolated from the rumen of five adult sheep fed a rich fiber diet and from the rumen of eleven young lambs. Most of the strains isolated were related to the Neocallimastix frontalis species. In the young lambs, the fungi appeared by 8 days after birth and disappeared 2 weeks later when the lambs were fed a concentrate diet.
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