The European project HoloRuminant is funded under the EU Horizon 2020 programme. It aims to clarify the role of ruminant microbiomes and their interaction with the host animal in early life and throughout fundamental life events known to affect ruminant production systems' health, welfare, and environmental efficiency.

With a multi-omics holistic approach, the HoloRuminant project will determine the connectivity between microbiomes from different body sites, their heritability and their influence on emissions, carbon footprint and phenotypic resilience to changing environmental conditions.