Characterization of the Pig Gut Microbiome and Antibiotic Resistome in Industrialized Feedlots in China.

ABSTRACT: To characterize the diversity and richness and explore the function and structure of swine gut microbiome and resistome in common pig-farming feedlots, we sampled and metagenomic sequenced the feces of pigs from four different industrialized feedlots located in four distant provinces across China. Surprisingly, more than half of the nonredundant genes (1,937,648, 54.3%) in the current catalogue were newly found compared with the previously published reference gene catalogue (RGC) of the pig gut microbiome. Additionally, 16 high-completeness draft genomes were obtained by analyzing the dominant species on each feedlot. Notably, seven of these species often appeared in the human body sites. Despite a smaller number of nonredundant genes, our study identified more antibiotic resistance genes

SUBMITTER: Wang C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6918024 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature