Comparative fecal metagenomics unveils unique functional capacity of the swine gut.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Uncovering the taxonomic composition and functional capacity within the swine gut microbial consortia is of great importance to animal physiology and health as well as to food and water safety due to the presence of human pathogens in pig feces. Nonetheless, limited information on the functional diversity of the swine gut microbiome is available.

Results

Analysis of 637, 722 pyrosequencing reads (130 megabases) generated from Yorkshire pig fecal DNA extracts was performed to help better understand the microbial diversity and largely unknown functional capacity of the swine gut microbiome. Swine fecal metagenomic sequences were annotated using both MG-RAST and JGI IMG/M-ER pipelines. Taxonomic analysis of metagenomic reads indicated that swine fecal microbiomes wer

SUBMITTER: Lamendella R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3123192 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature