Integrated multi-omics reveals the roles of cecal microbiota and its derived bacterial consortium in promoting chicken growth.

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The improvement of chicken growth performance is one of the major concerns for the poultry industry. Gut microbes are increasingly evidenced to be associated with chicken physiology and metabolism, thereby influencing chicken growth and development. Here, through integrated multi-omics analyses, we showed that chickens from the same line differing in their body weight were very different in their gut microbiota structure and host-microbiota crosstalk; microbes in high body weight (HBW) chickens contributed to chicken growth by regulating the gut function and homeostasis. We also verified that a specific bacterial consortium consisting of isolates from the HBW chickens has the potential to be used as chicken growth promoters. These findings provide new insights into the p

SUBMITTER: Zhang M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10734529 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature