The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of feeding behavior in conjunction with gut microbiome sampled at two growth stages in predicting growth and body composition traits of finishing pigs. Six hundred and fifty‐one purebred boars of three breeds: Duroc (DR), Land‐ race (LR), and Large White (LW), were studied. Feeding activities were recorded individually from 99 to 163 days of age. The 16S rRNA gene sequences were obtained from each pig at 123 ± 4 and 158 ± 4 days of age. When pigs reached market weight, body weight (BW), ultrasound backfat thickness (BF), ultrasound loin depth (LD), and ultrasound intramuscular fat (IMF) content were measured on live animals. Three models including feeding behavior (Model_FB), gut microbiota (Model_M), or both (Model_FB_M) as predictors, were investigated. Prediction accuracies were evaluated through cross‐validation across genetic backgrounds using the leave‐one‐breed‐out strategy and across rearing environments using the leave‐one‐room‐out approach. The proportions of pheno‐ typic variance of growth and body composition traits explained by feeding behavior ranged from 0.02 to 0.30, and from 0.20 to 0.52 when using gut microbiota composition. Overall prediction accuracy (averaged over traits and time points) of phenotypes was 0.24 and 0.33 for Model_FB, 0.27 and 0.19 for Model_M, and 0.40 and 0.35 for Model_FB_M for the across‐breed and across‐room scenarios, respectively. This study shows how feeding behavior and gut microbiota composition provide non‐redundant information in predicting growth in swine.

Use of Host Feeding Behavior and Gut Microbiome Data in Estimating Variance Components and Predicting Growth and Body Composition Traits in Swine / Yuqing He, Francesco Tiezzi, Jicai Jiang, Jeremy Howard, Yijian Huang, Kent Gray, Jung‐Woo Choi, Christian Maltecca. - In: GENES. - ISSN 2073-4425. - ELETTRONICO. - (2022), pp. 767-785. [10.3390/genes13050767]

Use of Host Feeding Behavior and Gut Microbiome Data in Estimating Variance Components and Predicting Growth and Body Composition Traits in Swine

Francesco Tiezzi
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2022

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of feeding behavior in conjunction with gut microbiome sampled at two growth stages in predicting growth and body composition traits of finishing pigs. Six hundred and fifty‐one purebred boars of three breeds: Duroc (DR), Land‐ race (LR), and Large White (LW), were studied. Feeding activities were recorded individually from 99 to 163 days of age. The 16S rRNA gene sequences were obtained from each pig at 123 ± 4 and 158 ± 4 days of age. When pigs reached market weight, body weight (BW), ultrasound backfat thickness (BF), ultrasound loin depth (LD), and ultrasound intramuscular fat (IMF) content were measured on live animals. Three models including feeding behavior (Model_FB), gut microbiota (Model_M), or both (Model_FB_M) as predictors, were investigated. Prediction accuracies were evaluated through cross‐validation across genetic backgrounds using the leave‐one‐breed‐out strategy and across rearing environments using the leave‐one‐room‐out approach. The proportions of pheno‐ typic variance of growth and body composition traits explained by feeding behavior ranged from 0.02 to 0.30, and from 0.20 to 0.52 when using gut microbiota composition. Overall prediction accuracy (averaged over traits and time points) of phenotypes was 0.24 and 0.33 for Model_FB, 0.27 and 0.19 for Model_M, and 0.40 and 0.35 for Model_FB_M for the across‐breed and across‐room scenarios, respectively. This study shows how feeding behavior and gut microbiota composition provide non‐redundant information in predicting growth in swine.
2022
767
785
Yuqing He, Francesco Tiezzi, Jicai Jiang, Jeremy Howard, Yijian Huang, Kent Gray, Jung‐Woo Choi, Christian Maltecca
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