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Broiler chickens and early life programming: Microbiome transplant-induced cecal community dynamics and phenotypic effects.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2020
Ramírez Gustavo A, Richardson Ella, Clark Jory, Keshri Jitendra, Drechsler Yvonne, Berrang Mark E, Meinersmann Richard J, Cox Nelson A, Oakley Brian B
Abstract excerpt
The concept of successional trajectories describes how small differences in initial community composition can magnify through time and lead to significant differences in mature communities. For many animals, the types and sources of early-life exposures to microbes have been shown to have significant and long-lasting effects on the community structure and/or function of the microbiome. In modern commercial...
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