2023 article

Domestication shapes the pig gut microbiome and immune traits from the scale of lineage to population

Kuthyar, S., Diaz, J., Avalos-Villatoro, F., Maltecca, C., Tiezzi, F., Dunn, R. R., & Reese, A. T. (2023, October 26). JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY.

By: S. Kuthyar *, J. Diaz *, F. Avalos-Villatoro*, C. Maltecca n , F. Tiezzi *, R. Dunn n , A. Reese *

author keywords: animal domestication; gut microbiome; immunity; pigs (Sus scrofa)
TL;DR: It is observed that domestication context explained much of the variation in gut microbiome composition, pathogen abundances and immune markers, yet the main differences in the repertoire of metabolic genes found in the gut microbiome were between the wild and domestic genetic lineages. (via Semantic Scholar)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: November 13, 2023

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