Diet-induced changes in the jejunal microbiota of developing broilers reduce the abundance of Enterococcus hirae and Enterococcus faecium.

Autor: Stege PB; Wageningen Bioveterinary Research, Wageningen University and Research, Lelystad, Netherlands. paul.stege@wur.nl., Schokker D; Wageningen Bioveterinary Research, Wageningen University and Research, Lelystad, Netherlands., Harders F; Wageningen Bioveterinary Research, Wageningen University and Research, Lelystad, Netherlands., Kar SK; Wageningen Livestock Research, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands., Stockhofe N; Wageningen Bioveterinary Research, Wageningen University and Research, Lelystad, Netherlands., Perricone V; Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, University of Milan, Milan, Italy., Rebel JMJ; Wageningen Bioveterinary Research, Wageningen University and Research, Lelystad, Netherlands., de Jong IC; Wageningen Livestock Research, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands., Bossers A; Wageningen Bioveterinary Research, Wageningen University and Research, Lelystad, Netherlands.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: BMC genomics [BMC Genomics] 2024 Jun 23; Vol. 25 (1), pp. 627. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jun 23.
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-024-10496-8
Abstrakt: Modern broiler breeds allow for high feed efficiency and rapid growth, which come at a cost of increased susceptibility to pathogens and disease. Broiler growth rate, feed efficiency, and health are affected by the composition of the gut microbiota, which in turn is influenced by diet. In this study, we therefore assessed how diet composition can affect the broiler jejunal gut microbiota. A total of 96 broiler chickens were divided into four diet groups: control, coated butyrate supplementation, medium-chain fatty acid supplementation, or a high-fibre low-protein content. Diet groups were sub-divided into age groups (4, 12 and 33 days of age) resulting in groups of 8 broilers per diet per age. The jejunum content was used for metagenomic shotgun sequencing to determine the microbiota taxonomic composition at species level. The composed diets resulted in a total of 104 differentially abundant bacterial species. Most notably were the butyrate-induced changes in the jejunal microbiota of broilers 4 days post-hatch, resulting in the reduced relative abundance of mainly Enterococcus faecium (-1.8 l2fc, P adj = 9.9E-05) and the opportunistic pathogen Enterococcus hirae (-2.9 l2fc, P adj = 2.7E-08), when compared to the control diet. This effect takes place during early broiler development, which is critical for broiler health, thus exemplifying the importance of how diet can influence the microbiota composition in relation to broiler health. Future studies should therefore elucidate how diet can be used to promote a beneficial microbiota in the early stages of broiler development.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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