Family relationship of female breeders reduce the systematic inter-individual variation in the gut microbiota of inbred laboratory mice

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 283-289

  Hufeldt, M R ^a,b,c   Nielsen, D S ^c   Vogensen, F K ^c   Midtvedt, T ^d   Hansen, A K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Scanbur A/S   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Laboratory animals; PCR DGGE; Reduction; Variation of the gut microbiota

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

AMPLICON; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CECUM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTESTINE FLORA; MALE; MOTHER; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROGENY;

ANIMAL USE ALTERNATIVES; ANIMALS; BREEDING; CECUM; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; MALE; METAGENOME; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SIBLING RELATIONS; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 77958023670     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/la.2010.010058     Document Type: Article

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