Impact of gut microbiota structure in heat-stressed broilers

• Published in: Poultry science Vol. 98; no. 6; pp. 2405 - 2413
• Main Authors: Shi, Dayou, Bai, Lin, Qu, Qian, Zhou, Shanshan, Yang, Meimei, Guo, Shining, Li, Qiuhong, Liu, Cui
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England 01.06.2019
• Subjects: Anaeroplasma; Animals; average daily gain; Bacteroides; Biomarkers - blood; blood serum; broiler chickens; cecum; Cecum - microbiology; Chickens - growth & development; Chickens - physiology; cortisol; Cyanobacteria; DNA; feed conversion; feed intake; Female; females; Gastrointestinal Microbiome - physiology; growth performance; heat; heat stress; High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing - veterinary; Hot Temperature - adverse effects; humans; intestinal microorganisms; Lactobacillus; Oscillospira; Proteobacteria; Random Allocation; ribosomal RNA; RNA, Bacterial - analysis; RNA, Ribosomal, 16S - analysis; sequence analysis; Sequence Analysis, RNA - veterinary; species diversity; Stress, Physiological; temperature; heat stress; performance; gut microbiota; construction of cecum

Gut microbiota** play important roles in the health and disease status of both humans and animals. Little is known about whether heat stress changes the composition of the gut microbiota in chicken. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of heat stress on changes in caecal microbiota,...