Utilizing the fecal microbiota to understand foal gut transitions from birth to weaning

A healthy gastrointestinal (GI) tract with a properly established microbiota is necessary for a foal to develop into a healthy weanling. A foal's health can be critically impacted by aberrations in the microbiome such as with diarrhea which can cause great morbidity and mortality in foals. In t...

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Published in:	PloS one Vol. 14; no. 4; p. e0216211
Main Authors:	De La Torre, Ubaldo, Henderson, John D, Furtado, Kathleen L, Pedroja, Madeleine, Elenamarie, O'Malley, Mora, Anthony, Pechanec, Monica Y, Maga, Elizabeth A, Mienaltowski, Michael J
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Public Library of Science 30-04-2019 Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subjects:	Age Animal sciences Animals Animals, Newborn Bacteria Bacteria - growth & development Bacterial genetics Biodiversity Biology and Life Sciences Birth Change detection Composition Deoxyribonucleic acid Diarrhea Diet Digestive system Digestive tract DNA Farms Fecal microflora Feces Feces - microbiology Foals Forage Gastrointestinal system Gastrointestinal tract Gastrointestinal Tract - microbiology Gene sequencing Genes Genetic aspects Health Health aspects Health care High-throughput screening (Biochemical assaying) Horses Horses - microbiology Juveniles Management techniques Medicine and Health Sciences Metagenomics Methods Microbiomes Microbiota Microbiota (Symbiotic organisms) Microorganisms Milk Morbidity Next-generation sequencing Nutrition research Pasture Phylogeny Polymerase chain reaction Populations Principal Component Analysis Relative abundance RNA rRNA 16S Weaning Zoology United States > US California
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