16S rRNA gene-based analysis of mucosa-associated bacterial community and phylogeny in the chicken gastrointestinal tracts: From crops to ceca

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 147-157

  Gong, Jianhua ^a   Si, Weiduo ^a   Forster, Robert J ^b   Huang, Ruilin ^c   Yu, Hai ^a   Yin, Yulong ^c   Yang, Chengbo ^c   Han, Yanming ^d  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b LETHBRIDGE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d Maple Leaf Foods Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene; Chicken intestine; Diversity; Microbiota; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; BACTERIUM; BIRD; CLONE; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHYLOGENY; RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTHROMITUS; ARTICLE; AVIAN STOMACH; BACTERIUM; CECUM; CLONE; CLOSTRIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUODENUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FAECALIBACTERIUM PRAUSNITZII; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; ILEUM; INTESTINE FLORA; JEJUNUM; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS AVIARIUS; LACTOBACILLUS SALIVARIUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUMINOCOCCUS; STOMACH MUCOSA; TAXONOMY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CHICKENS; CLOSTRIDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; LACTOBACILLUS; PHYLOGENY; PROBIOTICS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RUMINOCOCCUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS ARTHROMITUS; CLOSTRIDIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FAECALIBACTERIUM PRAUSNITZII; LACTOBACILLUS AVIARIUS; LACTOBACILLUS SALIVARIUS; OTUS; POSIBACTERIA; RUMINOCOCCUS;

EID: 33845678685     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2006.00193.x     Document Type: Article

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