Chicken Cecal Microbiome Network Responses to Antibiotic and Phytogenic Feed Additives

Chengyao Peng published data on figshare in 2026 from a study of feed additive effects on chicken gut microbiomes. The dataset contains results from a repeated cross-sectional randomized controlled trial involving 96 broiler chickens across three dietary groups and four developmental time points. It includes network topology metrics from a comparative analysis of microbial co-occurrence networks under different feed conditions.

Use Cases

• Compare microbial network topology changes based on dietary treatment groups described in the study.
• Analyze the relationship between feed additives and network metrics like connectivity and modularity mentioned in the results.
• Identify condition-specific keystone taxa based on node centrality analysis referenced in the description.
• Assess the structural robustness of microbial communities over time as described for the different treatments.

Strengths

• Data originates from a controlled trial with 96 broiler chickens across three dietary groups.
• Analysis covers four key developmental stages (Day 3, 14, 21, and 35).
• Dataset is published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The dataset is very small at 12.0 KB, indicating limited scope.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Metagenomic data from a repeated cross-sectional randomized controlled trial, with microbial co-occurrence networks constructed using Spearman's correlation.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 05:42:16; freshness should be verified.