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SAUDI JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 29, Issue 3, Pages 1781-1788Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.sjbs.2021.10.050
Keywords
Fecal Samples; Firmicutes; Microbiota; Next Generation Sequencing; Pheasants
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- Deanship of Scientific Research at King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia [R.G.P-2/135/42]
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Pheasant reintroduction and conservation efforts in Pakistan have been ongoing since the 1980s, but there is still limited data on pheasant microbiome and zoonosis. In this study, metagenomic analysis and classification were used to analyze the fecal microbiome of green and ring neck pheasants. The results showed that firmicutes were the most abundant phylum, and Bacillus was the most relatively abundant genus. Bird droppings contain germs from various anatomical sites, making simultaneous research challenging.
Pheasant reintroduction and conservation efforts have been in place in Pakistan since the 1980 s, yet there is still a scarcity of data on pheasant microbiome and zoonosis. Instead of growing vast numbers of bacteria in the laboratory, to investigate the fecal microbiome, pheasants (green and ring neck pheasant) were analyzed using 16S rRNA metagenomics and using IonS5TMXL sequencing from two flocks more than 10 birds. Operational taxonomic unit (OTU) cluster analysis and phylogenetic tree analysis was performed using Mothur software against the SSUrRNA database of SILVA and the MUSCLE (Version 3.8.31) software. Results of the analysis showed that firmicutes were the most abundant phylum among the top ten phyla, in both pheasant species, followed by other phyla such as actinobacteria and proteobacteria in ring necked pheasant and bacteroidetes in green necked pheasant. Bacillus was the most relatively abundant genus in both pheasants followed by Oceanobacillus and Teribacillus for ring necked pheasant and Lactobacillus for green necked pheasant. Because of their well-known beneficial characteristics, these genus warrants special attention. Bird droppings comprise germs from the urinary system, gut, and reproductive sites, making it difficult to research each anatomical site at the same time. We conclude that metagenomic analysis and classification provides baseline information of the pheasant fecal microbiome that plays a role in disease and health. (c) 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of King Saud University. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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