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ArticleScientific reports2020

Early-life microbiota transplantation affects behavioural responses, serotonin and immune characteristics in chicken lines divergently selected on feather pecking.

Jerine A J van der Eijk, T Bas Rodenburg, Hugo de Vries, Joergen B Kjaer, Hauke Smidt, Marc Naguib, Bas Kemp, Aart Lammers

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Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

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8 authors.

Jerine A J van der EijkBehavioural Ecology Group, Department of Animal Sciences, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands. jerine.vandereijk@wur.nl.
T Bas RodenburgAdaptation Physiology Group, Department of Animal Sciences, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands.
Hugo de VriesLaboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands.
Joergen B KjaerFriedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Institute of Animal Welfare and Animal Husbandry, Celle, Germany.
Hauke SmidtLaboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands.
Marc NaguibBehavioural Ecology Group, Department of Animal Sciences, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands.
Bas KempAdaptation Physiology Group, Department of Animal Sciences, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands.
Aart LammersAdaptation Physiology Group, Department of Animal Sciences, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gut microbiota influences host behaviour and physiology, such as anxiety, stress, serotonergic and immune systems. These behavioural and physiological characteristics are related to feather pecking (FP), a damaging behaviour in chickens that reduces animal welfare and productivity. Moreover, high FP (HFP) and low FP (LFP) lines differed in microbiota composition. However, it is unknown whether microbiota can influence the development of FP. For the first time, we identified the effects of microbiota transplantation on FP, and behavioural and physiological characteristics related to FP. HFP and LFP chicks received sterile saline (control), HFP or LFP microbiota transplantation during the first two weeks post-hatch. Microbiota transplantation influenced behavioural responses of the HFP line during treatment and of the LFP line after treatment. In both lines, homologous microbiota transplantation (i.e., receiving microbiota from their line) resulted in more active behavioural responses. Furthermore, microbiota transplantation influenced immune characteristics (natural antibodies) in both lines and peripheral serotonin in the LFP line. However, limited effects on microbiota composition, stress response (corticosterone) and FP were noted. Thus, early-life microbiota transplantation had immediate and long-term effects on behavioural responses and long-term effects on immune characteristics and peripheral serotonin; however, the effects were dependent on host genotype. Since early-life microbiota transplantation influenced behavioural and physiological characteristics that are related to FP, it could thus influence the development of FP later in life.

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Behavior, AnimalAggressionAnimalsAnimal WelfareAntibodiesAnxietyBacteriaChickensCorticosteroneFeathersFecal Microbiota TransplantationFemaleGastrointestinal MicrobiomeGenotypeMaleSerotoninAntibodiesCorticosteroneSerotonin

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PMID32066789
PMCPMC7026165

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