Research on the Interaction Mechanism Between Animal Intestine and Its Microbiota
A special issue of Biology (ISSN 2079-7737). This special issue belongs to the section "Biochemistry and Molecular Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 July 2026 | Viewed by 954
Special Issue Editors
Interests: animal nutrition; gut microbiota; gut barrier; immune homeostasis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The origins and establishment of gut microbiota in early life have a critical relationship with the host and play an important role in animal health and disease. The composition and diversity of the animal’s gut microbiota can be affected by many factors, including dietary components, drug usage, and living environment. The metabolites produced by gut microbiota can regulate the functions of the animal immune system and influence immune and metabolism-related diseases. Previous animal and clinical studies have found that oral administration of probiotics and prebiotic could increase the abundance of beneficial intestinal bacteria and inhibit the growth of harmful intestinal bacteria. The multi-pathway, multi-target, multi-effect integrated regulations on the gut microbiota could improve the animal’s health by maintaining immune homeostasis. Therefore, further study should be applied to explore the mechanism between the animal intestine and its microbiota.
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to our Special Issue on “Research on the Interaction Mechanism Between Animal Intestine and Its Microbiota” in our journal. This Special Issue will collect manuscripts dedicated to the comprehension of the diversity, metabolites, and interaction mechanisms of gut microbiota in animals. Multi-omics (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, phenomics, etc.) investigate the interaction mechanism of gut microbiota and the animal intestine at the gene, protein, metabolic, and phenotypic level are welcome.
This Special Issue welcomes submissions of original research and review manuscripts focusing on the interaction mechanism between the animal intestine and its microbiota.
Dr. Zongjie Li
Dr. Xiaomin Guo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- animal disease
- innate immunity
- gut microbiota
- gut barrier
- immune homeostasis
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