Impact of maternal dietary resistant starch and/or a direct high fat diet on a piglet's microbiota
Resistant starch (RS) is believed to exert beneficial effects on the gastrointestinal tract mainly due to higher levels of short chain fatty acids (SCFAs) and an improved microbiota profile. In this study, the possible maternal effect of RS was assessed. Sows were fed RS during the late gestation and lactation period and its effect on the overall health of the sow's progeny was examined. Since RS is also described to have a positive effect on metabolism, and to investigate a metabolic programming of the progeny, half of the piglets per maternal diet were assigned to a high fat diet from weaning on to 10 weeks after. The data hereby uploaded are the microbiota sequences coming from the content of the proximal colon and the RNA-seq data of liver and colon of these piglets.