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Assembly of hundreds of novel bacterial genomes from the chicken caecum
2019-07-12
Abstract excerpt
Chickens are a highly important source of protein for a large proportion of the human population. The caecal microbiota plays a crucial role in chicken nutrition through the production of short chain fatty acids, nitrogen recycling and amino acid production. In this study we sequenced DNA from caecal contents samples taken from 24 chickens belonging to either a fast or slower growing breed consuming either a veget...
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- Literature Corpus work
- b26d7f23-e631-5714-a615-f13cb4e52fde
- DOI
- 10.1101/699843