Assessing the potential use of a feed additive based on biochar on broilers feeding upon productive performance, pH of digestive organs, cecum fermentation and bacterial community

Feed supplementation with biochar may reduce poultry pathogens, including Campylobacter hepaticus, the causative agent of Spotty Liver Disease

(2019) Nicky-Lee Willson et al.   PLoS One

Effects of Hardwood Biochar on Methane Production, Fermentation Characteristics, and the Rumen Microbiota Using Rumen Simulation

(2019) Rebecca Teoh et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Rapid electron transfer by the carbon matrix in natural pyrogenic carbon

(2017) Tianran Sun et al.   Nature Communications

Bacteria within the Gastrointestinal Tract Microbiota Correlated with Improved Growth and Feed Conversion: Challenges Presented for the Identification of Performance Enhancing Probiotic Bacteria

(2016) Dragana Stanley et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Differences in major bacterial populations in the intestines of mature broilers after feeding virginiamycin or bacitracin methylene disalicylate

(2015) A.P. Neumann et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Effect of poultry litter biochar diet inclusion on feed manufacture and 4- to 21-d broiler performance

(2015) A. M. Evans et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED POULTRY RESEARCH

Phosphorus release behaviors of poultry litter biochar as a soil amendment

(2015) Yue Wang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Microbiota of the chicken gastrointestinal tract: influence on health, productivity and disease

(2014) Dragana Stanley et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Promoting Interspecies Electron Transfer with Biochar

(2014) Shanshan Chen et al.   Scientific Reports

Response of Intestinal Microbiota to Antibiotic Growth Promoters in Chickens

(2013) Jun Lin et al.   Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

Promoting direct interspecies electron transfer with activated carbon

(2012) Fanghua Liu et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Growth Performance, Immune Response and Carcass Characteristics of Finishing Pigs by Feeding Stevia and Charcoal

(2012) Jung-Soek Choi et al.   Korean Journal for Food Science of Animal Resources

Lactobacillus reuteri Prevents Diet-Induced Obesity, but not Atherosclerosis, in a Strain Dependent Fashion in Apoe−/− Mice

(2012) Frida Fåk et al.   PLoS One

Influence of penicillin on microbial diversity of the cecal microbiota in broiler chickens

(2012) P. Singh et al.   POULTRY SCIENCE

Identification and Characterization of Potential Performance-Related Gut Microbiotas in Broiler Chickens across Various Feeding Trials

(2011) Valeria A. Torok et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

FLASH: fast length adjustment of short reads to improve genome assemblies

(2011) T. Magoc et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

An improved Greengenes taxonomy with explicit ranks for ecological and evolutionary analyses of bacteria and archaea

(2011) Daniel McDonald et al.   ISME Journal

Search and clustering orders of magnitude faster than BLAST

(2010) Robert C. Edgar   BIOINFORMATICS

Biochar impact on nutrient leaching from a Midwestern agricultural soil

(2010) David Laird et al.   GEODERMA

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

Global patterns of 16S rRNA diversity at a depth of millions of sequences per sample

(2010) J. G. Caporaso et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Growth performance and carcass characteristics of broiler chickens fed diets supplemented with graded levels of charcoal from maize cob or seed of Canarium schweinfurthii Engl

(2010) Jean Raphael Kana et al.   TROPICAL ANIMAL HEALTH AND PRODUCTION

The Role of Probiotics in the Poultry Industry

(2009) S. M. Lutful Kabir   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Human gut microbiota in obesity and after gastric bypass

(2009) H. Zhang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Effects of a charcoal powder–wood vinegar compound solution in piglets for raw pigeon pea seed meal

(2008) A. Mekbungwan et al.   Animal