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Besides, significantly higher values of acetate and propionate, butyrate and total SCFA concentrations were simultaneously observed in ileal chyme of 16L:8D treatment (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.05). For the ileal microbial community, the results of principal coordinate analysis (PCoA) visually presented that three photoperiod groups were mainly scattered into three clusters, indicating that the microbiota composition in different photoperiod treatments were quite dissimilar. Lower values of Shannon indicators were observed in the 20L:4D treatment (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.05), meaning that the microbiota \u03b1-diversity decreased in the 20-h photoperiod. The relative abundance of Actinobacteria, Fusobacteria, and Proteobacteria at phylum level and <jats:italic>Fusobacterium<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Clostridium_sensu_stricto_1<\/jats:italic>, and <jats:italic>Pectobacterium<\/jats:italic> at genus level kept an appropriate balance in the 16L:8D photoperiod. Melatonin level in serum decreased with the increasing photoperiods at 6:00 and 12:00, which was consistent with melatonin receptor expressions in the hypothalamus and ileal tissue. Meanwhile, the adenosine 3\u2032,5\u2032-cyclic phosphate (cAMP) contents were significantly downregulated in the pineal gland (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.05), in response to the increase in photoperiod. 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