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Research Progress on Application of Metagenomics in the Animal Gastrointestinal Tract Microbiota

FAN Zhong-yuan, LI Guang-yu, LIU Han-lu   

  1. Institute of Special Economic Animal and Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changchun 130112, China
  • Received:2014-04-24 Online:2014-12-20 Published:2014-12-25

Abstract: Under laboratory conditions, cultivable microbes with less than 1% of total microbes in nature, this is limited to understanding and utilization of environmental microbiota.Metagenomics break through the culturable method, and bring a new technology for study microbial diversity and functional genomics.This paper presents the concept and basic research methods, with emphasis on its application and achievement in gastrointestinal tract of an animal.At the same time, prospected the perspective of metagenomics.

Key words: gastrointestinal tract microbiota; metagenomics; application

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