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On Wednesday, August 19th at 15:00 (CET) Alimetrics organises a 45 min webinar in which Ph.D. Teemu Rinttilä presents how a combination of DNA-based methods reveals links between intestinal microbiota and animal performance.
The family Erysipelotrichaceae, which is probably quite unknown to most, is an emerging group of bacteria in the phylum Firmicutes, which contains species originally classified into Clostridial subphylum clusters XVI & XVIII. In the cecum of broiler chickens, Erysipelotrichaceae is considered to be part of the core microbiota, comprising a […]
Investigation of bacterial composition by culturing techniques is laborious and prone to strong bias, since the growth requirements of many bacteria are still unknown and therefore cannot be provided under laboratory conditions. To overcome these drawbacks, culture-independent molecular methods based on amplification of 16S rRNA genes have been introduced to […]
Most DNA-based methods for intestinal microbiota characterisation rely on PCR amplification with broad-range primers at an early stage of the protocol. Even though reference is frequently made to ‘universal primers’ capturing all bacteria, strictly speaking such oligonucleotides do not exist. Therefore, general bacterial analysis based on 16S rDNA sequencing is […]
Bacterial lactic acid fermentation is a biological process wherein rapidly fermentable carbohydrates are metabolised by lactic acid bacteria, with lactic acid as a major product. Lactate is the strongest of the common short-chain fatty acids produced by gastrointestinal bacteria and therefore it tends to reduce residual pH more than other […]
