Evaluation of the bacterial community and intestinal development of different genetic lines of chickens

Poultry Science

Volumn 89, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1614-1621

  Lumpkins, B S ^a   Batal, A B ^b   Lee, M D ^c  

^a Southern Poultry Research Inc   (United States)

^b Department of Poultry Science ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial population; Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis; Gastrointestinal tract; Genetic line; Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GALLUS GALLUS; GLYCINE MAX; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 77957998049     PISSN: 00325791     EISSN: 15253171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3382/ps.2010-00747     Document Type: Article

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