Interrelations between the microbiotas in the litter and in the intestines of commercial broiler chickens

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 6572-6582

  Cressman, Michael D ^a   Yu, Zhongtang ^a   Nelson, Michael C ^a   Moeller, Steven J ^a   Lilburn, Michael S ^a   Zerby, Henry N ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; BROILER CHICKENS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; LACTOBACILLUS SPP; MICROBIOTAS; PCR-DGGE; RECIPROCAL EFFECTS; TEMPORAL CHANGE;

ANIMALS; CLONING; ELECTROPHORESIS; RNA;

BACTERIOLOGY;

RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; CLONE; ELECTROKINESIS; LITTER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POULTRY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CECUM; CHEMISTRY; CHICKEN; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIET; DNA DENATURATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES; GENETICS; ILEUM; INTESTINE MUCOSA; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CECUM; CHICKENS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIET; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FECES; ILEUM; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; METAGENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIALES; GALLUS GALLUS; LACTOBACILLUS;

EID: 78049253926     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00180-10     Document Type: Article

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