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SUBMITTER: Schofield BJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8494115 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Schofield B J BJ Andreani N A NA Günther C S CS Law G R GR McMahon G G Swainson M M Goddard M R MR
Food microbiology 20210805
Microbes play key roles in animal welfare and food safety but there is little understanding of whether microbiomes associated with livestock vary in space and time. Here we analysed the bacteria associated with the carcasses of the same breed of 28 poultry broiler flocks at different stages of processing across two climatically similar UK regions over two seasons with 16S metabarcode DNA sequencing. Numbers of taxa types did not differ by region, but did by season (P = 1.2 × 10<sup>-19</sup>), a ...[more]