1. Cai-Xia Pei, Sheng-Yong Mao, Yan-Fen Cheng and Wei-Yun Zhu, Diversity, abundance and novel 16S rRNA gene sequences of methanogens in rumen liquid, solid and epithelium fractions of Jinnan cattle. Animal, 2010, 4:1, 20–29
2. Yun Zhang Sun, Sheng-Yong Mao, Wei-Yun Zhu. Rumen chemical and bacterial changes during stepwise adaptation to a high concentrate diet in goats. Animal ,2010, 4: 210-217
3. Y.F. Cheng, S.Y. Mao, J.X. Liu and W.Y. Zhu. Molecular diversity analysis of rumen methanogenic Archaea from goat in eastern China by DGGE methods using different primer pairs. Letters in Applied Microbiology, 2009, 48(5):585-592.
4. Mao SY, Zhang G, Zhu WY, Effect of disodium fumarate on ruminal metabolism and rumen bacterial communities in goat as revealed by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis analysis of 16S ribosomal DNA. Animal Feed Science and Technology, 2008, 140: 293–306.
5. Sun YZ, Mao SY, Yao W, Zhu WY. DGGE and 16S rDNA analysis reveals a highly diverse and rapidly colonising bacterial community on different substrates in the rumen of goats. Animal, 2008, 2 (3): 391–398
6. Mao SY, Zhu WY, Wang QJ, Yao W.2007, Effect of daidzein on in vitro fermentation of micro-organisms from the goat rumen. Animal Feed Science and Technology, 136:154-163.
7. Mao SY, Zhang G, Zhu WY, 2007, Effect of disodium fumarate on in vitro rumen fermentation of different substrates and rumen bacterial communities as revealed by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis analysis of 16S ribosomal DNA. Asia-Australian Journal of Animal Sciences, 20 (4): 543-549.
8. Liu W, Mao SY, Zhu WY, 2007. Impact of tiny miRNAs on cancers. World Journal of Gastroenterology, 13(4):497-502.
9. Zhu WY, Mao SY, Liu JX, Cheng YF, Iqbal MF, Wang JK, Diversity of methanogens and their interactions with other microorganisms in methanogenesis in the rumen. Plenary Paper, Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on the Nutrition of Herbivores, pp 125-139, Beijing, September 17 – 22, 2007
10. Zhu W-Y, Mao SY, Yao W. (2003) Influence of anaerobic fungi on the fermentation of rice straw by rumen microbial populations. Tropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems 3:191-196.