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Methanogenesis is therefore treated as one outcome among nutrition, immune function, pathogen resistance and gut integrity. Metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, metaproteomics and metabolomics are complementary rather than interchangeable; coordinated sampling is required to connect functional potential to activity and host phenotype. Priority should be given to longitudinal, multi-compartment, mucosa-and-digesta studies with absolute microbial measurements, metabolite fluxes and transparent causal inference. 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