New Cattle Microbe Named For OSU Scientist
WOOSTER, Ohio Billions of creatures natu
ral, needed microbes live in the innards of cattle.
But they’re known to only a handful of people. One of
them is Burk Dehority, a scientist with Ohio State Uni
versity.
Dehority, of the university’s Ohio Agricultural Re
search and Development Center in Wooster, is an
expert in rumen and gastrointestinal microbiology
the study of microbes that live in the guts of herbi
vores, or plant‘eating animals. Among his subjects are
cattle, sheep, kangaroos and quokkas.
The quokka, an endangered Australian marsupial,
is downright abundant compared to the number of sci
entists like Dehority: worldwide maybe a dozen.
So when Turkish scientists discovered an unknown
protozoa in the rumens of their cattle, they knew who
to turn tor Dehority, who in the course of his 45-year
career has described and named 21 new species. He
sent the researchers photographs of a species that ap
peared to be a match, one he had found in Alaskan
Dali sheep. They used the photos to identify the mi
crobe.
In subsequent studies the scientists found and de
scribed a new species. It, too, was a protozoa that lived
in the rumens of Turkish cattle. The researchers
thanked Dehority for his previous help by naming the
species after him: Eudiplodinium dehorityi. Details
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are in a recent issue of the journal Acta Parasitologies
Turcica. The researchers work at Turkey’s Ege Uni
versity.
The new species is of interest because its physical
characteristics fall between previously described spe
cies a sort of “missing link” in rumen protozoa evo
lution.
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