Metagenomic analysis of dietary fiber-induced modulations in the caecal microbiota of chickens (ANI 99% MAGs: ENA project PRJEB77488)

Dietary fibers offer a potential solution to rising feed costs and feed–food competition. They are known to impact the health of birds by shaping their gut microbiota. Understanding of how dietary Fibers (soluble and insoluble) modulate caecal microbiota can help in devising targeted manipulation strategies to improve Fiber fermentation and ultimately enhance chicken productivity. Birds were divided into five different dietary groups (1) basal diet (CG): corn/soya-based diet; (2) GA: basal diet + 1% inulin; (3) GB: basal diet + 4% inulin; (4) GC: basal diet + 1% ARBOCEL; (5) GD: basal diet + 4% ARBOCEL. DNA from caecal contents was isolated, and shotgun metagenomic sequencing was performed. Raw sequencing files, primary assemblies, bins, and metagenome assembled genomes (MAGs) that were dereplicated at the species level (95% ANI) have been uploaded to the European Nucleotide Archive (project PRJEB77488). This dataset contains all MAGs produced from this project, dereplicated at the strain level (99% ANI).