The chicken gut metagenome and the modulatory effects of plant-derived benzylisoquinoline alkaloids

Huang, Peng; Zhang, Yan; Xiao, Kangpeng; Jiang, Fan; Wang, Hengchao; Tang, Dazhi; Liu, Dan; Liu, Bo; Liu, Yisong; He, Xi; Liu, Hua; Liu, Xiubin; Qing, Zhixing; Liu, Conghui; Huang, Jialu; Ren, Yuwei; Yun, Long; Yin, Lijuan; Lin, Qian; Zeng, Cheng; Su, Xiaogang; Yuan, Jingyang; Li, Lin; Hu, Nanxi; Cao, Hualiang; Huang, Sanwen; Guo, Yuming; Fan, Wei; Zeng, Jianguo

doi:10.1186/s40168-018-0590-5

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The chicken gut metagenome and the modulatory effects of plant-derived benzylisoquinoline alkaloids

Published in Microbiome • Nov 27, 2018

Authors:

Peng Huang

Yan Zhang

Kangpeng Xiao

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Sub-therapeutic antibiotics are widely used as growth promoters in the poultry industry; however, the resulting antibiotic resistance threatens public health. A plant-derived growth promoter, Macleaya cordata extract (MCE), with effective ingredients of benzylisoquinoline alkaloids, is a...

Subject

Biology

Metagenomics

Foregut

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