Journal
JOURNAL OF BASIC MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 58, Issue 6, Pages 543-553Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jobm.201800060
Keywords
16S rRNA gene high-throughput sequencing; Bar-headed goose; Greylag goose; gut microbiome; Swan goose
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Funding
- Project of Qinghai Science & Technology Department [2016-ZJ-Y01]
- Open Project of State Key Laboratory of Plateau Ecology and Agriculture, Qinghai University [2017-ZZ-21]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31701573]
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In this study, we characterized for the first time the gut microbiota of Greylag geese (Anser anser) using high-throughput 16S rRNA gene sequencing technology. The results showed that the phyla Firmicutes (78.55%), Fusobacteria (9.38%), Proteobacteria (7.55%), Bacteroidetes (1.82%), Cyanobacteria (1.44%), and Actinobacteria (0.61%) dominated the gut microbial communities in the Greylag geese. Then, the variations of gut microbial community structures and functions among the three geese species, Greylag geese, Bar-headed geese (Anser indicus), and Swan geese (Anser cygnoides), were explored. The greatest gut microbial diversity was found in Bar-headed geese group, while other two groups had the least. The dominant bacterial phyla across all samples were Firmicutes and Proteobacteria, but several characteristic bacterial phyla and genera associated with each group were also detected. At all taxonomic levels, the microbial community structure of Swan geese was different from those of Greylag geese and Bar-headed geese, whereas the latter two groups were less different. Functional KEGG categories and pathways associated with carbohydrate metabolism, energy metabolism, and amino acid metabolism were differentially expressed among different geese species. Taken together, this study could provide valuable information to the vast, and yet little explored, research field of wild birds gut microbiome.
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