
%0 Journal Article
%A Mills, SC 
%A Scott, TW 
%A Russell, GR 
%A Smith, RM 
%T Hydrogenation of C18 Unsaturated Fatty Acids by Pure Cultures of a Rumen Micrococcus
%J Australian Journal of Biological Sciences
%D 1970/09/01
%V 23
%N 4
%P 1109-1114
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/BI9701109
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/BI9701109 
%X Approximately 70% of the fatty acids present in plant lipids are unsaturated; the major component is cis-9,cis-12,cis-15-octadecatrienoic acid (Garton 1963). After ingestion by ruminants, these acids are readily hydrogenated by microorganisms in the rumen to form a complex mixture of positional and geometrical C18 isomers (Shorland et al. 1957; Ward, Scott, and Dawson 1964; Wilde and Dawson 1966; Kemp and Dawson 1968). 
