We have just published a new paper in which we define microbiota colonising mucosal surface of chicken caecum. The paper was published in Animal Microbiome and we describe that caecal mucus is colonised by a rather low number of bacterial species from genera Helicobacter, Mucispirillum, Anaerobiospirillum, Desulfovibrio, Brachyspira and Treponema-like spirochaeta. Most of these bacteria are characterisyic by spiral shape of their cells and these bacteria also commonly express type VI secretion system. Additional information including metabolism of bacteria from mucosal surface vcan be found in the paper here.
