Maternal Rumen Bacteriota Shapes the Offspring Rumen Bacteriota, Affecting the Development of Young Ruminants.

ABSTRACT: The maternal rumen microbiota can affect the infantile rumen microbiota and likely offspring growth, and some rumen microbes are heritable and are associated with host traits. However, little is known about the heritable microbes of the maternal rumen microbiota and their role in and effect on the growth of young ruminants. From analyzing the ruminal bacteriota from 128 Hu sheep dams and their 179 offspring lambs, we identified the potential heritable rumen bacteria and developed random forest prediction models to predict birth weight, weaning weight, and preweaning gain of the young ruminants using rumen bacteria as predictors. We showed that the dams tended to shape the bacteriota of the offspring. About 4.0% of the prevalent amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) of rumen bacteria were herit

SUBMITTER: Jin S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10100811 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature