Fig. 6From: Maternal effects drive intestinal development beginning in the embryonic period on the basis of maternal immune and microbial transfer in chickensThe embryonic gut microbiota is correlated with the intestinal transcriptome and intestinal development. Spearman correlations between upregulated DEGs and morphological indices at E15 (a) and E21 (b). *P < 0.05 and **P < 0.01, n = 12. Spearman correlations between upregulated DEGs and significantly enriched taxa at E15 (c) and E21 (d), which are summarized and ranked in (f). *P < 0.05 and **P < 0.01, n = 12. e Representative photographs of sections subjected to IHC-P showing embryonic intestinal mucosal immunity at E21. Bar = 20 μmBack to article page