Article
The effect of microbiome modulation on the intestinal health of poultry
2019-04-01
Abstract excerpt
The chicken gastrointestinal (GI) tract is home to a complex microbial community that underlines the links between diet and health. The GI tract is rich in microbial biodiversity, playing home to ≥500 phylotypes or ∼1 million bacterial genes, which equates to 40–50 times the number in the chicken genome. Manipulating the microbiota would serve as promising therapeutic paradigm; albeit not a new concept for the pou...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 439d8814-873b-5f0c-8639-9b395c1fc71e
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.anifeedsci.2018.10.008
