Animal Health & Performance

Research into the animal microbiome focuses on studying the microbial populations that inhabit animals, in order to determine their role in health, disease, and development. A better understanding and control of the animal microbiome will improve animal nutrition through probiotics, feed additives and customised diets.

BaseClear offers you complete animal microbiome analysis and reporting services for better insights into microbial populations and their functions. BaseClear is involved in many projects that are focused on this emerging research area to identify and characterise the microbiomes of various animal species.

Our expertise encompasses:

  • Microbiome expert partner for in vitro & in vivo research and field trials
  • Metatranscriptomics and metabolic pathway analysis: measuring the effect of prebiotics, probiotics, synbiotics or enzymes
  • Strain tracking & colonisation using metagenomics analyses with species-level resolution
  • Host-specific microbial gene catalogues, incl. rumen, swine and poultry
  • Pathogen detection & surveillance
  • Discovery of novel strains, biomarkers or enzymes with our strain discovery solution
  • Safety assessment of microbial strains used as feed additive

Primates Gut Microbiome Also Subject To Lifestyle Changes

Primates are an order of mammals belonging to tropical regions, generally as forest dwellers, surviving in a natural habitat with a different diet and lifestyle. Relatively close contact between humans and non-human primates provides an idea and an opportunity to scientists to understand microbiome and host interactions . The microorganisms inhabiting the gut of a host animal are termed as the ‘gut microbiome’. The gut microbiome of primates can be rewired by changing their lifestyle, diet, habitat, and cohabitants among other factors.

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