Extensive microbial diversity within the chicken gut microbiome revealed by metagenomics and culture.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The chicken is the most abundant food animal in the world. However, despite its importance, the chicken gut microbiome remains largely undefined. Here, we exploit culture-independent and culture-dependent approaches to reveal extensive taxonomic diversity within this complex microbial community.

Results

We performed metagenomic sequencing of fifty chicken faecal samples from two breeds and analysed these, alongside all (n = 582) relevant publicly available chicken metagenomes, to cluster over 20 million non-redundant genes and to construct over 5,500 metagenome-assembled bacterial genomes. In addition, we recovered nearly 600 bacteriophage genomes. This represents the most comprehensive view of taxonomic diversity within the chicken gut microbiome to date,

SUBMITTER: Gilroy R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8035907 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature