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Insect-based diet, a promising nutritional source, modulates gut microbiota composition and SCFAs production in laying hens.
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Insects could be potential nutritional sources both for humans and animals. Among these, Hermetia illucens, with good amount of chitin and proteins, represents a suitable diet replacement for laying hens. Little is known about insect diet effects on the microbial ecology of the gastrointestinal tract and bacterial metabolites production. In this study we investigated the effect of H. illucens larvae meal administration on cecal microbiota and short chain fatty acids (SCFAs) production in laying hens. 16S rDNA sequencing showed strong differences between cecal microbiota of soybean (SD) and insect diet (ID) groups both in type and relative abundance (unweighted and weighted beta diversity) of microbial species. In particular, Bacteroides plebeius, Elusimicrobium minutum, Alkaliphilus transvaalensis, Christensenella minuta, Vallitalea guaymasensis and Flavonifractor plautii represented the principal contributors of changes in gut microbiota composition of ID group (FDR p-values < 0.05). Of these, F. plautii, C. minuta and A. transvaalensis have the potential to degrade the chitin’s insect meal and correlated with the observed high levels of gut SCFAs produced in ID group. These microorganisms may thus connect the chitin degradation with high SCFAs production. Our results suggest H. illucens as a potential prebiotic by well feeding gut microbiota.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Borrelli, L., Coretti, L., Dipineto, L., Bovera, F., Menna, F., Chiariotti, L., Nizza, A., Lembo, F., & Fioretti, A.
- Affiliations
- University of Naples Federico II (IT)
- Institute for Experimental Endocrinology and Oncology (IT)
- Corresponding author
- Borrelli, Luca
- ORCID
- Venue
- Scientific Reports
- Published
- 2017-11-24
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 16269-16269
- ISSN
- 2045-2322 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC5701250
- OpenAlex
- W2768218657
- Cited by
- 263
- References
- 60
- Citations by year
- 2026: 18 · 2025: 37 · 2024: 33 · 2023: 39 · 2022: 36 · 2021: 31 · 2020: 37 · 2019: 25 · 2018: 7
- FWCI
- 17.53
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- Scientific Reports (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Università degli Studi di Firenze
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Insect Science › Insect Utilization and Effects
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Animal Science and Zoology › Animal Nutrition and Physiology
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gut microbiota and health
- Keywords
- Hermetia illucens, insect meal, laying hens, gut microbiota, short-chain fatty acids, cecal microbiota, chitin degradation, prebiotics, soybean diet, Flavonifractor plautii, Christensenella minuta, Bacteroides plebeius, poultry nutrition
- MeSH terms
- Gastrointestinal Microbiome, Animals, Animal Feed, Chickens, Diet, Fatty Acids, Volatile, Female, Insecta
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