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Microbial diversity and community composition of caecal microbiota in commercial and indigenous Indian chickens determined using 16s rDNA amplicon sequencing.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:The caecal microbiota plays a key role in chicken health and performance, influencing digestion and absorption of nutrients, and contributing to defence against colonisation by invading pathogens. Measures of productivity and resistance to pathogen colonisation are directly influenced by chicken genotype, but host driven variation in microbiome structure is also likely to exert a considerable indirect influence. METHODS:Here, we define the caecal microbiome of indigenous Indian Aseel and Kadaknath chicken breeds and compare them with the global commercial broiler Cobb400 and Ross 308 lines using 16S rDNA V3-V4 hypervariable amplicon sequencing. RESULTS:Each caecal microbiome was dominated by the genera Bacteroides, unclassified bacteria, unclassified Clostridiales, Clostridium, Alistipes, Faecalibacterium, Eubacterium and Blautia. Geographic location (a measure recognised to include variation in environmental and climatic factors, but also likely to feature varied management practices) and chicken line/breed were both found to exert significant impacts (p?

SUBMITTER: Pandit RJ

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6015460 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Microbial diversity and community composition of caecal microbiota in commercial and indigenous Indian chickens determined using 16s rDNA amplicon sequencing.

Pandit Ramesh J RJ Hinsu Ankit T AT Patel Namrata V NV Koringa Prakash G PG Jakhesara Subhash J SJ Thakkar Jalpa R JR Shah Tejas M TM Limon Georgina G Psifidi Androniki A Guitian Javier J Hume David A DA Tomley Fiona M FM Rank Dharamshibhai N DN Raman M M Tirumurugaan K G KG Blake Damer P DP Joshi Chaitanya G CG

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<h4>Background</h4>The caecal microbiota plays a key role in chicken health and performance, influencing digestion and absorption of nutrients, and contributing to defence against colonisation by invading pathogens. Measures of productivity and resistance to pathogen colonisation are directly influenced by chicken genotype, but host driven variation in microbiome structure is also likely to exert a considerable indirect influence.<h4>Methods</h4>Here, we define the caecal microbiome of indigenou ...[more]

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Microbial diversity and community composition of caecal microbiota in commercial and indigenous Indian chickens determined using 16s rDNA amplicon sequencing.

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Microbial diversity and community composition of caecal microbiota in commercial and indigenous Indian chickens determined using 16s rDNA amplicon sequencing.

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