Project description:The objective of this study was to determine if Salmonella colonization of chickens could be reduced through competitive exclusion using a defined community of chicken commensal bacteria. One-day old White Leghorn chicks, hatched on-site, were randomly divided into experimental groups and given an oral gavage of either a defined community of 15 bacterial species (DC), cecal contents (CC), or sterile PBS (control; CT). After one week, birds were euthanized for cecal content collection (pre-Salmonella sample) while the remaining birds were orally gavaged 1 X 10^8 colony forming units (CFU) of Salmonella enterica ser. Heidelberg strain 2813 (SH2813). Bacterial counts for three post-Salmonella timepoints (3, 14, and 28 days post inoculation; dpi) were evaluated. Bacteriological enumeration was performed by plating cecal contents onto Salmonella selective agar to determine CFU/g in each group for all collection days. Cecal contents were also used for 16S amplicon sequencing. Cecal tissue was used for stranded mRNA sequencing (RNA-Seq).
Project description:Chicken 60-mer oligonucleotide microarray, including 39854 cDNA and ESTs, entire Marek’s disease virus and avian influenza virus genomes, and 150 chicken microRNAs, was developed. Cecal tonsil, ileum, liver and spleen from 6 chickens were selected for hybridization to validate the microarray performance. There are 2886, 2886, 2660, 358, 3208 3355, and 3710 genes significantly expressed between liver and spleen, spleen and cecal tonsil, cecal tonsil and ileum, liver and cecal tonsil, liver and ileum, spleen and ileum at the P<10-7. Number of tissue specific genes for cecal tonsil, ileum, liver and spleen was 95, 71, 535, and 108, respectively with p < 10-7. More than 95% of spots had high SNR (>10). Keywords: characteristics of newly developed microarray using different normal tissue
