Christiane Portele, Petra Jansen
The Effects of a Mindfulness-Based Training in an Elementary School in Germany
Mindfulness
early microbial colonization gut impacts animal performance lifelong health however research gut microbial colonization development young ruminants especially weaning currently limited study nextgeneration sequencing technology performed investigate temporal dynamic changes microbial community jejunum colon goats 1 7 14 28 42 56 70 84 days age age increased significant increases microbial diversity including number observed otus shannon index observed jejunum colon regarding beta diversity significant shifts community membership structure d1 d84 observed based braycurtis jaccard distances increasing age dominant genera jejunum shifted lactobacillus unclassified ruminococcaceae unclassified lachnospiraceae unclassified clostridiales starter supplementation whereas colonic dominant genera changed lactobacillus butyricicoccus within d1d28 unclassified ruminococcaceae unclassified clostridiales campylobacter solid diet supplementation linear discriminant analysis lda effect size lefse analysis revealed bacterial features stagespecific jejunum colon respectively jejunum colon significantly distinct structure membership microbiota observed across ages growth stageassociated microbiota gut compartment also identified marker biogeography data indicate temporal spatial differences gut microbiota goats important performance health early microbial colonization influence microbial composition later life eg postweaning phase study provides insights temporal dynamics gut microbiota development newborn postweaning aid developing feeding strategies improve goat health production