Deciphering chicken gut microbial dynamics based on high-throughput 16S rRNA metagenomics analyses

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BACKGROUND: Chicken gut microbiota has paramount roles in host performance, health and immunity. Understanding the topological difference in gut microbial community composition is crucial to provide knowledge on the functions of each members of microbiota to the physiological maintenance of the host. The gut microbiota profiling of the chicken was commonly performed previously using culture-dependent and early...