Research Note: Snapshot of the transcriptome via RNA sequencing in the ileum of broiler chickens fed subtherapeutic concentrations of avilamycin.

ABSTRACT: Antibiotics have played a critical role in sustaining and improving livestock production in the past decades, but the emergence of antimicrobial resistance has led several countries to ban or limit their use. Since then, in-feed alternatives have gained a lot of attention but the development of efficacious alternatives implies a better understanding of the mode of action of antibiotic growth promoters (AGP) when administered at subtherapeutic concentrations. In the present study, 120 broiler chickens per group (8 pens/group) were fed for 35 d with either basal feed (control group) or feed supplemented with avilamycin (AGP group; 10 g/1,000 kg of feed). At the end of the trial, the ileum from the small intestine of 5 birds per group was sampled, and RNA were isolated for profiling their tra

SUBMITTER: Fibi-Smetana S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7858091 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature