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Extensive Microbial and Functional Diversity within the Chicken Cecal Microbiome

Chickens are major source of food and protein worldwide. Feed conversion and the health of chickens relies on the largely unexplored complex microbial community that inhabits the chicken gut, including the ceca. We have carried out deep microbial community profiling of the microbiota in twenty cecal...

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Autores principales: Sergeant, Martin J., Constantinidou, Chrystala, Cogan, Tristan A., Bedford, Michael R., Penn, Charles W., Pallen, Mark J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3962364/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24657972
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0091941