Gut microbial community assembly exhibits compartment-specific responses to selection for high body weight in female chickens
Fei Zhang, Yao Wang, Jiale Qian, Shuai Li, Xutao Deng, Mengya Lu, Yanli Liu, Xin Yang, Jianqin Zhang, Zhouzheng Ren, Xiaojun Yang · 2026
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Fei Zhang and co-authors present a 2026 study of gut microbes in chickens bred for high body weight. Breeding for growth may also reshape the microbes that live in the gut. The gut is not one place, though, as each section hosts its own mix. The team compared a primitive female line with a line selected for heavy weight. They measured gut shape and the microbe mixes section by section.
The two lines differed in gut form and in how microbes assembled in each section. Selection history seemed to act on each gut section in its own way. That pattern warns against treating the gut as a single uniform tube. The authors link the microbe shifts to host-microbe interplay under breeding. Their work may inform feeding and breeding plans in poultry science.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Fei Zhang, Yao Wang, Jiale Qian, Shuai Li, Xutao Deng, Mengya Lu, Yanli Liu, Xin Yang, Jianqin Zhang, Zhouzheng Ren, Xiaojun Yang |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 50 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |