Effect of environmental variance-based resilience selection on the gut metabolome of rabbits.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Gut metabolites are key actors in host-microbiota crosstalk with effect on health. The study of the gut metabolome is an emerging topic in livestock, which can help understand its effect on key traits such as animal resilience and welfare. Animal resilience has now become a major trait of interest because of the high demand for more sustainable production. Composition of the gut microbiome can reveal mechanisms that underlie animal resilience because of its influence on host immunity. Environmental variance (V_E), specifically the residual variance, is one measure of resilience. The aim of this study was to identify gut metabolites that underlie differences in the resilience potential of animals originating from a divergent selection for V_E of litter

SUBMITTER: Casto-Rebollo C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9996918 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature