Highly variable microbiota development in the chicken gastrointestinal tract.

ABSTRACT: Studies investigating the role that complex microbiotas associated with animals and humans play in health and wellbeing have been greatly facilitated by advances in DNA sequencing technology. Due to the still relatively high sequencing costs and the expense of establishing and running animal trials and collecting clinical samples, most of the studies reported in the literature are limited to a single trial and relatively small numbers of samples. Results from different laboratories, investigating similar trials and samples, have often produced quite different pictures of microbiota composition. This study investigated batch to batch variations in chicken cecal microbiota across three similar trials, represented by individually analysed samples from 207 birds. Very different microbiota prof

SUBMITTER: Stanley D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3877270 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature