Bacillus-Based Probiotic Treatment Modified Bacteriobiome Diversity in Duck Feces

The intestinal health of poultry is great importance for birds’ growth and development; probiotics-driven shifts in gut microbiome can exert considerable indirect effect on welfare production performance. information about microbiota ducks scarce; by using high throughput metagenomic sequencing with Illumina Miseq we examined fecal bacterial diversity Peking grown conventional Bacillus-probiotic-enriched feed. probiotic supplementation drastically decreased the presence opportunistic pathogen Escherichia/Shigella, which was major sole common dominant all samples. Seventy other species ducks’ assemblages were found to have probiotic-related differences, interpreted as beneficial confirmed increased performance probiotic-fed ducks. Bacterial α-biodiversity indices group. presented inventory duck bacteriobiome be very useful global meta-analysis similar data order gain a better insight into functioning interactions improve health,