Chicken ceca, blood, tibia, and femur Raw sequence reads. Chicken ceca, blood, tibia, and femur

Substantial progress has been made towards understanding stress-associated gut and extraintestinal microbiota. However, a comprehensive understanding of the dynamics and source of the extraintestinal microbiota is lacking. In this study, chickens were raised on wire floor model to induce stress, and the microbiotas in the gut (ceca) and extraintestinal sites (blood, femur, and tibia) were characterized at different ages (1, 17, and 56 days) using 16S rRNA gene microbiome profiling.