ArticleMicrobial ecology in health and disease2015
High nutrient availability reduces the diversity and stability of the equine caecal microbiota.
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- A Comprehensive Review of the Equine Gut Microbiome in Health and Disease.Veterinary sciences · 2026Review
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- Impact of Low-Starch Dietary Modifications on Faecal Microbiota Composition and Gastric Disease Scores in Performance Horses.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
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- Dietary Energy Sources Affect Cecal and Fecal Microbiota of Healthy Horses.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Stability of Gastric Fluid and Fecal Microbial Populations in Healthy Horses under Pasture and Stable Conditions.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Fecal Microbiota, Forage Nutrients, and Metabolic Responses of Horses Grazing Warm- and Cool-Season Grass Pastures.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Effects of Corn and Broken Rice Extrusion on the Feed Intake, Nutrient Digestibility, and Gut Microbiota of Weaned Piglets.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Species and individual rhinoceros affect the bacterial communities, metabolites, and nutrient composition in faeces from Southern black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis minor) and Southern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum simum) under managed care.Journal of animal physiology and animal nutrition · 2022Article
- Resilience of Faecal Microbiota in Stabled Thoroughbred Horses Following Abrupt Dietary Transition between Freshly Cut Pasture and Three Forage-Based Diets.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
- A Standard Scale to Measure Equine Keeper Status and the Effect of Metabolic Tendency on Gut Microbiome Structure.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
- The Equine Faecal Microbiota of Healthy Horses and Ponies in The Netherlands: Impact of Host and Environmental Factors.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
- Priming for welfare: gut microbiota is associated with equitation conditions and behavior in horse athletes.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- The gut microbiome of horses: current research on equine enteral microbiota and future perspectives.Animal microbiome · 2019Review
- The human gut bacteria Christensenellaceae are widespread, heritable, and associated with health.BMC biology · 2019Review
- Unraveling the effects of the gut microbiota composition and function on horse endurance physiology.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Modification of the equine gastrointestinal microbiota by Jerusalem artichoke meal supplementation.PloS one · 2019Article
- Influence of short-term dietary starch inclusion on the equine cecal microbiome.Journal of animal science · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundIt is well known that nutrient availability can alter the gut microbiota composition, while the effect on diversity and temporal stability remains largely unknown.
methodsHere we address the equine caecal microbiota temporal stability, diversity, and functionality in response to diets with different levels of nutrient availability. Hay (low and slower nutrient availability) versus a mixture of hay and whole oats (high and more rapid nutrient availability) were used as experimental diets.
resultsWe found major effects on the microbiota despite that the caecal pH was far from sub-clinical acidosis. We found that the low nutrient availability diet was associated with a higher level of both diversity and temporal stability of the caecal microbiota than the high nutrient availability diet. These observations concur with general ecological theories, suggesting a stabilising effect of biological diversity and that high nutrient availability has a destabilising effect through reduced diversity.
conclusionNutrient availability does not only change the composition but also the ecology of the caecal microbiota.
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