期刊
BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY
卷 96, 期 2, 页码 406-414出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01127.x
关键词
Clamator glandarius; cloacal bacteria; Pica pica; ribosomal intergenic spacer analysis
资金
- Spain's Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnologia [BOS2001-1947-C02-01, CGL2007-61251/BOS-FEDER, FP-2001-1952]
- Fondation de famille Sandoz
- Swiss National Science Foundation [31-102104/1]
The intestinal microbiota determines the effectiveness of digestion in vertebrates, and is influenced by the external environment (mainly the diet), gut characteristics, and phylogeny. Avian brood-parasitic nestlings of the sub-family Cuculinae develop in nests of phylogenetically distant passerines and can be fed with the host diet. If the shaping of bacterial communities is dominated by phylogenetic constraints, and therefore the microbiota of parasitic nestlings differs from that of host nestlings, the energy and micronutrients that parasites and hosts obtain from a similar amount of food would be different. In this case, the bacterial communities of parasitic and host nestlings would have important consequences with respect to brood parasite development. By experimentally creating mixed broods of magpies (Pica pica) and great spotted cuckoos (Clamator glandarius), we investigated their cloacal microbiota using ribosomal intergenic spacer analysis. We found significant differences in bacterial assemblages of the parasitic and host nestlings, although none of the phylotypes were specific in either great spotted cuckoos or magpies. Cuckoos presented more complex communities, which could help the brood parasitic life style and allow the digestion of food provided by different potential hosts. Moreover, the intestinal morphology is different between the two species due to phylogenetic differences in the two taxa, which would influence the dissimilar bacterial assemblages. The detected differences in microbiota of great spotted cuckoo and magpie nestlings, which might occur in other brood parasite-host systems, may imply a lower digestion efficiency in parasites. Thus, the higher level requirements of cuckoo nestlings may be explained, at least in part, by cuckoos having a suboptimal bacterial community for processing the host diet. (C) 2009 The Linnean Society of London, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2009, 96, 406-414.
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