Xu-Tao Deng

Gut microbial community assembly exhibits compartment-specific responses to selection for high body weight in female chickens

Conventional poultry breeding primarily targets host growth traits, yet breeding may also reshape the gut microbiota through host–microbe interactions. Given the spatial heterogeneity of the chicken gastrointestinal tract, whether divergent selection for body weight is associated with compartment-specific microbial ass...