Background In large-scale poultry farming, broilers of the same breed, sharing a common genetic background and identical management conditions, nevertheless exhibit considerable individual variation in body weight. Multitudinous stressors can profoundly influence the host microbiota, thereby...

In large-scale poultry farming, broilers of the same breed share a common genetic background and identical management conditions, yet substantial individual variation in body weight persists. In this study, we identified distinct plasma proteomic profiles between high and low weight broilers, wit...