Comparison of the fecal microbiota of healthy horses and horses with colitis by high throughput sequencing of the V3-V5 region of the 16s rRNA gene

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Costa, Marcio C ^a   Arroyo, Luis G ^a   Allen Vercoe, Emma ^b   Stämpfli, Henry R ^a   Kim, Peter T ^b   Sturgeon, Amy ^a   Weese, J Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

16S RRNA GENE; ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTEROIDETES; COLITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES MICROFLORA; FEMALE; FUSOBACTERIA; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HORSE; INTESTINE FLORA; LACHNOSPIRACEAE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DOMINANCE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPIROCHETE;

ANIMALS; COLITIS; FECES; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; METAGENOME; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTEROIDETES; CLOSTRIDIA; EQUIDAE; FIRMICUTES; FUSOBACTERIA; LACHNOSPIRACEAE; PROTEOBACTERIA; SPIROCHAETES;

EID: 84864444221     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041484     Document Type: Article

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