Sus scrofa domesticus breed:Landrace x Large white Metagenome

Study objectives were to investigate the effects of galacto-oligosaccharides on the microbiome, gut architecture and immunomodulatory goblet cell expression of poorly performing piglets that could benefit from milk replacement feeding alone or supplemented with 1 % (w/w) galacto-oligosaccharides when separated from sows and fit siblings in environmentally controlled pens. Production data over 21 days were collected in four separate and repeated feed trials before post-mortem duodenal, jejunal, ileal, caecal, colonic and rectal samples were collected from thirty-five piglets across the four trials and the microbiome composition assessed by 16s rRNA gene sequencing.