Characterization of bacterial communities in caecum, hard and soft feces of rabbit using 16S rRNA genes capillary electrophoresis single-strand conformation polymorphism (CE-SSCP)

International audience; Dynamic and individual variability of caecal bacterial community were compared to those of hard and soft feces using capillary electrophoresis single strand conformation polymorphism (CE-SSCP). Soft and hard feces of 14 adult rabbits were weekly sampled during 5 weeks while caecal content was sampled on the 3rd (after surgery) and 5th week (after sacrifice). Bacterial communities were compared for their structure (peaks of CE-SSCP profiles analysis) and their diversity (estimation of Simpson diversity index on CE-SSCP profiles, D’). Bacterial community of caecal content, soft and hard feces presented individual variability (P