Selection for environmental variance shifted the gut microbiome composition driving animal resilience.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding how the host's microbiome shapes phenotypes and participates in the host response to selection is fundamental for evolutionists and animal and plant breeders. Currently, selection for resilience is considered a critical step in improving the sustainability of livestock systems. Environmental variance (V _E), the within-individual variance of a trait, has been successfully used as a proxy for animal resilience. Selection for reduced V _E could effectively shift gut microbiome composition; reshape the inflammatory response, triglyceride, and cholesterol levels; and drive animal resilience. This study aimed to determine the gut microbiome composition underlying the V _E of litter size (LS), for which we performed a metagenomic ana

SUBMITTER: Casto-Rebollo C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10318751 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature