Higher-level production of volatile fatty acids in vitro by chicken gut microbiotas than by human gut microbiotas as determined by functional analyses

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 5763-5772

  Lei, Fang ^a,c   Yin, Yeshi ^a,b   Wang, Yuezhu ^d   Deng, Bo ^b   Yu, Hongwei David ^e   Li, Lanjuan ^f   Xiang, Charlie ^f   Wang, Shengyue ^d   Zhu, Baoli ^a   Wang, Xin ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION AND MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d CHINESE NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME CENTER AT SHANGHAI   (China)

^e MARSHALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; 454-PYROSEQUENCING; ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; BACTERIAL COMPOSITION; CHICKEN CECA; HUMAN FECAL; HUMAN GUTS; IN-VITRO; MICROBIOTAS; NUTRIENT REQUIREMENT; QUANTITATIVE PCR;

BIOMOLECULES; GENES; METABOLITES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEINS; RNA; VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS;

ANIMALS;

BACTERIAL DNA; PROTEIN; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S; VOLATILE FATTY ACID;

BACTERIUM; BIRD; CHEMOSTAT; FATTY ACID; FERMENTATION; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; GROWTH RATE; METABOLITE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CHEMISTRY; CHICKEN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES; FERMENTATION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CHICKENS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FATTY ACIDS, VOLATILE; FECES; FERMENTATION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; METAGENOME; PROTEINS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84866175132     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00327-12     Document Type: Article

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