Gut microbiome shifts with urbanization and potentially facilitates a zoonotic pathogen in a wading bird
| Autor: | Henry C. Adams, Anjelika D. Kidd, Catharine N. Welch, Emily W. Lankau, Maureen H. Murray, Erin K. Lipp, Sonia M. Hernandez, Taylor Ellison |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Bacterial Diseases
0301 basic medicine Wildlife Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Urban Environments Salmonella RNA Ribosomal 16S 11. Sustainability Medicine and Health Sciences Colonization 2. Zero hunger Principal Component Analysis 0303 health sciences Multidisciplinary Ecology biology Salmonella enterica Eukaryota Genomics Terrestrial Environments Bacterial Pathogens Trophic Interactions Habitats Intestines Infectious Diseases Community Ecology Habitat Medical Microbiology Vertebrates Medicine Pathogens Research Article Animal Types Science 030106 microbiology Microbial Genomics Microbiology Birds 03 medical and health sciences Enterobacteriaceae Urbanization Genetics Animals Microbiome Microbial Pathogens Ecosystem Nutrition 030304 developmental biology Eudocimus Bacteria 030306 microbiology Host (biology) Ecology and Environmental Sciences Organisms Biology and Life Sciences 15. Life on land biology.organism_classification Diet Gastrointestinal Microbiome 030104 developmental biology Amniotes Zoology |
| Zdroj: | PLoS ONE, Vol 15, Iss 3, p e0220926 (2020) PLoS ONE |
| Popis: | Microbial communities in the gastrointestinal tract influence many aspects of host health, including metabolism and susceptibility to pathogen colonization. These relationships and the environmental and individual factors that drive them are relatively unexplored for free-living wildlife. We quantified the relationships between urban habitat use, diet, and age with microbiome composition and diversity for 82 American white ibises (Eudocimus albus) captured along an urban gradient in south Florida and tested whether gut microbial diversity was associated withSalmonella entericaprevalence. Shifts in community composition were significantly associated with urban land cover and, to a lesser extent, diets higher in provisioned food. The diversity of genera was negatively associated with community composition associated with urban land cover, positively associated with age class, and negatively associated withSalmonellashedding. Our results suggest that shifts in both habitat use and diet for urban birds significantly alter gut microbial composition and diversity in ways that may influence health and pathogen susceptibility as species adapt to urban habitats. |
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