Comparison Between the Gut Microbiota in Different Gastrointestinal Segments of Large-Tailed Han and Small-Tailed Han Sheep Breeds with High-Throughput Sequencing.

ABSTRACT: Commensal microorganisms are essential to the normal development and function of many aspects of animal biology. However, the dynamic shift patterns of the microbiota of different gut segments in sheep and the correlation between fat type large-tailed phenotype and microbiota remain poorly unknown. This study therefore sought to assess the composition and distribution of the intestinal microbiome, and compared the difference of gut microbiota from different gastrointestinal segments within breeds and same intestinal sections between breeds. For these analyses, 16S rRNA V4 regions from 4 gut sections prepared from each of six individuals (3 from each breed) were sequenced to detect the microbiome composition in these samples. These analyses revealed the presence of 51,173 operational taxono

SUBMITTER: Yang G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7539261 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature