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Paternal weight of ducks may have an influence on offspring’ small intestinal function and cecal microorganisms
BACKGROUND: In animals, many factors affect the small intestinal function and cecal microorganisms, including body weight and genetic background. However, whether paternal weight impacts the small intestinal function and cecal microorganisms remains unknown to date. The current study used Nonghua sh...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7275315/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32503422 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12866-020-01828-1 |
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author | Ran, Mingxia Hu, Bo Cheng, Lumin Hu, Shenqiang Liu, Hehe Li, Liang Hu, Jiwei Wang, Jiwen |
author_facet | Ran, Mingxia Hu, Bo Cheng, Lumin Hu, Shenqiang Liu, Hehe Li, Liang Hu, Jiwei Wang, Jiwen |
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description | BACKGROUND: In animals, many factors affect the small intestinal function and cecal microorganisms, including body weight and genetic background. However, whether paternal weight impacts the small intestinal function and cecal microorganisms remains unknown to date. The current study used Nonghua sheldrake to estimate the effect of paternal weight on the intestine of the offspring by evaluating differences in small intestinal morphology, digestive enzyme activity, and cecal microorganisms between the offspring of male parents with high body weight (group H) and that of male parents with low body weight (group L). RESULTS: The results of the analysis of small intestinal morphology showed that the villus height of the jejunum of group H ducks was higher than that of group L ducks, and the difference was significant for ducks at 10 weeks of age. Moreover, the villus height/crypt depth of the duodenum in group H significantly exceeded that of group L at a duck age of 2 weeks. The amylase activity in the jejunum content of group H exceeded that of group L at 5 and 10 weeks of age. Furthermore, the proportion of the Firmicutes to Bacteroidetes was significantly higher in group H (duck age of 2 weeks). Among the genera with a relative abundance exceeding 1%, the relative abundances of genera Desulfovibrio, Megamonas, Alistipes, Faecalibacterium, and Streptococcus observed in group H were significantly different between group H and group L. CONCLUSIONS: For the first time, this study identifies the effect of paternal weight on offspring small intestinal function and cecal microorganisms. Consequently, this lays a foundation for further research on the relationship between male parents and offspring intestinal function. |
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spelling | pubmed-72753152020-06-08 Paternal weight of ducks may have an influence on offspring’ small intestinal function and cecal microorganisms Ran, Mingxia Hu, Bo Cheng, Lumin Hu, Shenqiang Liu, Hehe Li, Liang Hu, Jiwei Wang, Jiwen BMC Microbiol Research Article BACKGROUND: In animals, many factors affect the small intestinal function and cecal microorganisms, including body weight and genetic background. However, whether paternal weight impacts the small intestinal function and cecal microorganisms remains unknown to date. The current study used Nonghua sheldrake to estimate the effect of paternal weight on the intestine of the offspring by evaluating differences in small intestinal morphology, digestive enzyme activity, and cecal microorganisms between the offspring of male parents with high body weight (group H) and that of male parents with low body weight (group L). RESULTS: The results of the analysis of small intestinal morphology showed that the villus height of the jejunum of group H ducks was higher than that of group L ducks, and the difference was significant for ducks at 10 weeks of age. Moreover, the villus height/crypt depth of the duodenum in group H significantly exceeded that of group L at a duck age of 2 weeks. The amylase activity in the jejunum content of group H exceeded that of group L at 5 and 10 weeks of age. Furthermore, the proportion of the Firmicutes to Bacteroidetes was significantly higher in group H (duck age of 2 weeks). Among the genera with a relative abundance exceeding 1%, the relative abundances of genera Desulfovibrio, Megamonas, Alistipes, Faecalibacterium, and Streptococcus observed in group H were significantly different between group H and group L. CONCLUSIONS: For the first time, this study identifies the effect of paternal weight on offspring small intestinal function and cecal microorganisms. Consequently, this lays a foundation for further research on the relationship between male parents and offspring intestinal function. BioMed Central 2020-06-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7275315/ /pubmed/32503422 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12866-020-01828-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Ran, Mingxia Hu, Bo Cheng, Lumin Hu, Shenqiang Liu, Hehe Li, Liang Hu, Jiwei Wang, Jiwen Paternal weight of ducks may have an influence on offspring’ small intestinal function and cecal microorganisms |
title | Paternal weight of ducks may have an influence on offspring’ small intestinal function and cecal microorganisms |
title_full | Paternal weight of ducks may have an influence on offspring’ small intestinal function and cecal microorganisms |
title_fullStr | Paternal weight of ducks may have an influence on offspring’ small intestinal function and cecal microorganisms |
title_full_unstemmed | Paternal weight of ducks may have an influence on offspring’ small intestinal function and cecal microorganisms |
title_short | Paternal weight of ducks may have an influence on offspring’ small intestinal function and cecal microorganisms |
title_sort | paternal weight of ducks may have an influence on offspring’ small intestinal function and cecal microorganisms |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7275315/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32503422 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12866-020-01828-1 |
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