Review
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Jul 2026
Probiotics, Gut Microbiome, and Livestock Production: From Mechanisms of Action to Precision Breeding
This review systematically summarizes the core mechanisms by which probiotics modulate meat quality, feed efficiency and small intestinal and cecal health in pigs and broilers via the gut–muscle axis, nutrient metabolic axis, and immune regulatory axis and elucidates the heritable effects of host genetics on shaping the gut microbiome.
Jia Tian, Lie Hou, Yuanyuan Zhang et al.
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