TY - JOUR
T1 - Novel strategies to improve chicken performance and welfare by unveiling host-microbiota interactions through hologenomics
AU - Tous, Núria
AU - Marcos, Sofia
AU - Goodarzi Boroojeni, Farshad
AU - Pérez de Rozas, Ana
AU - Zentek, Jürgen
AU - Estonba, Andone
AU - Sandvang, Dorthe
AU - Gilbert, M. Thomas P.
AU - Esteve-Garcia, Enric
AU - Finn, Robert
AU - Alberdi, Antton
AU - Tarradas, Joan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2022 Tous, Marcos, Goodarzi Boroojeni, Pérez de Rozas, Zentek, Estonba, Sandvang, Gilbert, Esteve-Garcia, Finn, Alberdi and Tarradas.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Fast optimisation of farming practices is essential to meet environmental sustainability challenges. Hologenomics, the joint study of the genomic features of animals and the microbial communities associated with them, opens new avenues to obtain in-depth knowledge on how host-microbiota interactions affect animal performance and welfare, and in doing so, improve the quality and sustainability of animal production. Here, we introduce the animal trials conducted with broiler chickens in the H2020 project HoloFood, and our strategy to implement hologenomic analyses in light of the initial results, which despite yielding negligible effects of tested feed additives, provide relevant information to understand how host genomic features, microbiota development dynamics and host-microbiota interactions shape animal welfare and performance. We report the most relevant results, propose hypotheses to explain the observed patterns, and outline how these questions will be addressed through the generation and analysis of animal-microbiota multi-omic data during the HoloFood project.
AB - Fast optimisation of farming practices is essential to meet environmental sustainability challenges. Hologenomics, the joint study of the genomic features of animals and the microbial communities associated with them, opens new avenues to obtain in-depth knowledge on how host-microbiota interactions affect animal performance and welfare, and in doing so, improve the quality and sustainability of animal production. Here, we introduce the animal trials conducted with broiler chickens in the H2020 project HoloFood, and our strategy to implement hologenomic analyses in light of the initial results, which despite yielding negligible effects of tested feed additives, provide relevant information to understand how host genomic features, microbiota development dynamics and host-microbiota interactions shape animal welfare and performance. We report the most relevant results, propose hypotheses to explain the observed patterns, and outline how these questions will be addressed through the generation and analysis of animal-microbiota multi-omic data during the HoloFood project.
KW - animal performance
KW - genomics
KW - metagenomics
KW - multi-omics
KW - sustainability
U2 - 10.3389/fphys.2022.884925
DO - 10.3389/fphys.2022.884925
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 36148301
AN - SCOPUS:85138307968
VL - 13
JO - Frontiers in Physiology
JF - Frontiers in Physiology
SN - 1664-042X
M1 - 884925
ER -