Broiler chickens and early life programming: Microbiome transplant-induced cecal community dynamics and phenotypic effects.

ABSTRACT: The concept of successional trajectories describes how small differences in initial community composition can magnify through time and lead to significant differences in mature communities. For many animals, the types and sources of early-life exposures to microbes have been shown to have significant and long-lasting effects on the community structure and/or function of the microbiome. In modern commercial poultry production, chicks are reared as a single age cohort and do not directly encounter adult birds. This scenario is likely to initiate a trajectory of microbial community development that is significantly different than non-industrial settings where chicks are exposed to a much broader range of environmental and fecal inocula; however, the comparative effects of these two scenarios

SUBMITTER: Ramirez GA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7665843 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature