Healthy Gut Microbiome Composition Enhances Disease Resistance and Fat Deposition in Tibetan Pigs.

ABSTRACT: The gut microbiota is involved in a range of physiological processes in animals, and modulating the microbiome composition is considered a novel target for identifying animal traits. Tibetan pigs show better fat deposition and disease resistance compared to Yorkshire pigs. However, studies investigating the correlation between favorable characteristics in Tibetan pigs and the gut microbial community remain scarce. In the current study, 1,249,822 high-quality sequences were obtained by amplicon sequencing of the colon contents of Tibetan and Yorkshire pigs. We found that at the boundary level, the abundance and relative abundance of colon bacterial community in Tibetan pigs were higher than that in Yorkshire pigs (P > 0.05). Phylum level, Firmicutes were the dominant colonic microflo

SUBMITTER: Shang P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9343729 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature