Pasture flock chicken cecal microbiome responses to prebiotics and plum fiber feed amendments

When prebiotics and other fermentation substrates are delivered to animals as feed supplements, the typical goal is to improve weight gain and feed conversion. In this work, we examined pasture flock chicken cecal contents using next generation sequencing (NGS) to identify and understand the composi...

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Main Authors: Park, S.H., Perrotta, Allison, Hanning, I., Diaz-Sanchez, S., Pendleton, S., Alm, Eric J, Ricke, S.C.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier BV 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/125258