Characterisation of the faecal bacterial community in adult and elderly horses fed a high fibre, high oil or high starch diet using 454 pyrosequencing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Dougal, Kirsty ^a   De La Fuente, Gabriel ^a   Harris, Patricia A ^b   Girdwood, Susan E ^a   Pinloche, Eric ^a   Geor, Raymond J ^c   Nielsen, Brian D ^c   Schott II, Harold C ^c   Elzinga, Sarah ^c   Jamie Newbold, C ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b WALTHAM CENTRE FOR PET NUTRITION   (United Kingdom)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S; OIL; STARCH; EDIBLE OIL;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDETES; CARBOHYDRATE DIET; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DNA EXTRACTION; FECES MICROFLORA; FOOD COMPOSITION; FORAGE; HIGH FIBER DIET; HORSE; LACHNOSPIRACEAE; LIPID DIET; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIOME; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLUM; PROTEOBACTERIA; PYROSEQUENCING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPIROCHETE; ANIMAL; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DIETARY FIBER; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECTS; FECES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MICROBIOLOGY; PHARMACOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

AGING; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DIETARY FATS, UNSATURATED; DIETARY FIBER; FECES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HORSES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STARCH;

EID: 84895126975     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087424     Document Type: Article

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