Herbivorous rodents (Neotoma spp.) harbour abundant and active foregut microbiota.

@article{Kohl2014HerbivorousR,
  title={Herbivorous rodents (Neotoma spp.) harbour abundant and active foregut microbiota.},
  author={Kevin D. Kohl and Aaron W. Miller and James E. Marvin and Roderick Ian Mackie and M. Denise Dearing},
  journal={Environmental microbiology},
  year={2014},
  volume={16 9},
  pages={
          2869-78
        }
}
Symbiotic gut microbes have facilitated the success of herbivorous mammals, which are generally grouped into foregut- and hindgut-fermenters. However, rodents are primarily herbivorous and exhibit a variety of gastrointestinal anatomies. Most rodents house microbes in hindgut chambers, such as the caecum and colon. Some rodents also exhibit stomach segmentation with a foregut chamber proximal to the stomach. For over a century, scientists have hypothesized that this foregut chamber houses a… 
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