Gut microbiota critical to health and behavior in sport horses

A study of 2020, coordinated by Núria Mach, from the department of genetic and integrative animal biology at the French University of Paris-Saclay, sought to To examine the influence of environmental variable factors (riding, diet, accommodation, season) and related to the host (e.g., age, sex, body condition, reproductive status, parasite infection status, pH, protozoan and fungal load) On the composition of the fecal microbiota. As more and more high-level sport horses suffer from stress, testing the microbiota offers a new opportunity to study bidirectional interactions within the gut-brain axis. The gut microbiota has become an incre...