Extensive microbial and functional diversity within the chicken cecal microbiome.

Chickens are major source of food and protein worldwide. Feed conversion and the health of chickens relies on the largely unexplored complex microbial community that inhabits the chicken gut, including the ceca. We have carried out deep microbial community profiling of the microbiota in twenty cecal...

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Main Authors: Martin J Sergeant, Chrystala Constantinidou, Tristan A Cogan, Michael R Bedford, Charles W Penn, Mark J Pallen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0091941
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