Diversity and functional landscapes in the microbiota of animals in the wild
| Autor: | Yishay Pinto, David Futorian, Anastasia Godneva, Doron Levin, Eran Segal, Sigal Leviatan, Gal Zanir, Neta Raab, Ido Bachelet, David Zeevi, Daphna Rothschild, Nadav Mellul, Doran Gal |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Bacterial Toxins Biodiversity Animals Wild Biology Gut flora Genome Feces Phylogenetics Madagascar Animals Uganda Israel Ecosystem Phylogeny media_common Multidisciplinary Bacteria Behavior Animal Host Microbial Interactions Gastrointestinal Microbiome biology.organism_classification Diet Falkland Islands Evolutionary biology Metagenomics Metagenome Queensland Databases Nucleic Acid Function (biology) Genome Bacterial Diversity (politics) Peptide Hydrolases |
| Zdroj: | Science (New York, N.Y.). 372(6539) |
| ISSN: | 1095-9203 |
| Popis: | Mining wild animal microbiomes We have only just begun to examine the multitude of bacteria associated with other organisms. Levin et al. sampled the feces of 184 wild animals, including fish, birds, and mammals, from four different continents to survey the diversity of gut bacteria (see the Perspective by Lind and Pollard). They discovered more than 1000 previously undescribed bacterial species and identified factors that correlate with the composition, diversity, and functional content of the microbiota. Supporting the association of specific bacteria with animal lifestyle, they identified proteases, some previously undescribed, from the gut of griffon vultures that can break down toxins that may be present in their carrion diet. Science , this issue p. eabb5352 ; see also p. 238 |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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