Microbial diversity and community composition of caecal microbiota in commercial and indigenous Indian chickens determined using 16s rDNA amplicon sequencing.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The caecal microbiota plays a key role in chicken health and performance, influencing digestion and absorption of nutrients, and contributing to defence against colonisation by invading pathogens. Measures of productivity and resistance to pathogen colonisation are directly influenced by chicken genotype, but host driven variation in microbiome structure is also likely to exert a considerable indirect influence.

Methods

Here, we define the caecal microbiome of indigenous Indian Aseel and Kadaknath chicken breeds and compare them with the global commercial broiler Cobb400 and Ross 308 lines using 16S rDNA V3-V4 hypervariable amplicon sequencing.

Results

Each caecal microbiome was dominated by the genera Bacteroides, unclassified bacteria, unclassified Clostr

SUBMITTER: Pandit RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6015460 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature