Journal: Poultry Science
Article Title: Microbial communities present in the lower respiratory tract of clinically healthy birds in Pakistan
doi: 10.3382/ps/pev010
Figure Lengend Snippet: The 16S rRNA sequence (V1 to V5)-based taxonomic tree corresponding to NCBI taxonomy database in clinically healthy birds representing studied farms. The size/radius of the node corresponds to the number of hits for each taxonomic node. Black color of radius corresponds to CHS; FRS as green, and OHS as blue. Full color version available online.
Article Snippet: We sampled the lower respiratory microbiome of each bird via tracheo-bronchoalveolar lavage ( T-BAL ) and subsequently sequenced 16S rRNA gene by next generating sequencing ( NGS ) (454-pyrosequencing); the region is considered highly conserved across different species of bacteria and archaea (Clarridge, 2004 ; Streit and Schmitz, 2004 ; Schuster, 2008 ).
Techniques: Sequencing