Unraveling the fecal microbiota and metagenomic functional capacity associated with feed efficiency in pigs

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue AUG, 2017, Pages

  Yang, Hui ^a   Huang, Xiaochang ^a   Fang, Shaoming ^a   He, Maozhang ^a   Zhao, Yuanzhang ^a   Wu, Zhenfang ^b   Yang, Ming ^b   Zhang, Zhiyan ^a   Chen, Congying ^a   Huang, Lusheng ^a  

^a JIANGXI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Department of Poultry Nutrition and Feed Science   (China)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene; Feed efficiency; Gut microbiota; Metagenome; Swine

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027681938     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01555     Document Type: Article

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