ArticleMicrobiome2024
Altitude-dependent agro-ecologies impact the microbiome diversity of scavenging indigenous chicken in Ethiopia.
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- Animal gut microbes and microbiomes in the 21st century and beyond.Science China. Life sciences · 2026Review
- Secondary analysis of the intestinal microbiota of healthy chickens.Poultry science · 2026Article
- Intestinal Microbiota and Probiotic Characteristics of Two Indigenous Chicken Breeds (Hotan Black Chicken and Baicheng You Chicken) from the Tarim Basin.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Metagenomic analysis of fecal and environmental microbiota in rural mixed livestock farming systems in South Africa.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026Article
- Infectious bronchitis virus vaccination, but not the presence of XCR1, is correlated with large differences in chicken caecal microbiota.Microbial genomics · 2024Article
- Chicken caecal enterotypes in indigenous Kadaknath and commercial Cobb chicken lines are associated withFrontiers in microbiomes · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundScavenging indigenous village chickens play a vital role in sub-Saharan Africa, sustaining the livelihood of millions of farmers. These chickens are exposed to vastly different environments and feeds compared to commercial chickens. In this study, we analysed the caecal microbiota of 243 Ethiopian village chickens living in different altitude-dependent agro-ecologies.
resultsDifferences in bacterial diversity were significantly correlated with differences in specific climate factors, topsoil characteristics, and supplemental diets provided by farmers. Microbiota clustered into three enterotypes, with one particularly enriched at high altitudes. We assembled 9977 taxonomically and functionally diverse metagenome-assembled genomes. The vast majority of these were not found in a dataset of previously published chicken microbes or in the Genome Taxonomy Database.
conclusionsThe wide functional and taxonomic diversity of these microbes highlights their importance in the local adaptation of indigenous poultry, and the significant impacts of environmental factors on the microbiota argue for further discoveries in other agro-ecologies. Video Abstract.
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