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Composition and Similarity of Bovine Rumen Microbiota across Individual Animals

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The bovine rumen houses a complex microbiota which is responsible for cattle's remarkable ability to convert indigestible plant mass into food products. Despite this ecosystem's enormous significance for humans, the composition and similarity of bacterial communities across different animals and the possible presence of some bacterial taxa in all animals' rumens have yet to be determined. We characterized the rumen bacterial populations of 16 individual lactating cows using tag amplicon pyrosequencing. Our data showed 51% similarity in bacterial taxa across samples when abundance and occurrence were analyzed using the Bray-Curtis metric. By adding taxon phylogeny to the analysis using a weighted UniFrac metric, the similarity increased to 82%. We also counted 32 genera that are shared by all samples, exhibiting high variability in abundance across samples. Taken together, our results suggest a core microbiome in the bovine rumen. Furthermore, although the bacterial taxa may vary considerably between cow rumens, they appear to be phylogenetically related. This suggests that the functional requirement imposed by the rumen ecological niche selects taxa that potentially share similar genetic features.

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  • Jan 1, 2023
  • Acta Ecologica Sinica
  • 黄正谊,苏延桂,黄刚,吕坤,吴国朋,林思诺,王晶晶 Huang Zhengyi

PDF HTML阅读 XML下载 导出引用 引用提醒 尖峰岭热带天然林不同土层细菌群落多样性和组成的海拔变异规律 DOI: 10.5846/stxb202203090570 作者: 作者单位: 作者简介: 通讯作者: 中图分类号: 基金项目: 国家自然科学基金项目(32171643,U1703332) The altitudinal patterns of bacterial community diversity and composition at different soil depths in Jianfengling mountain tropical forest Author: Affiliation: Fund Project: The National Natural Science Foundation of China (General Program, Key Program, Major Research Plan) 摘要 | 图/表 | 访问统计 | 参考文献 | 相似文献 | 引证文献 | 资源附件 | 文章评论 摘要:土壤微生物群落结构沿海拔梯度的变异是微生物生物地理学分异和群落空间分布的重要内容,然而,热带森林土壤微生物多样性及其群落特征的海拔模式尚不明确。研究海南省尖峰岭自然保护区0-20cm和20-40cm土壤细菌多样性和群落组成沿海拔梯度(400-1410m)的变化及其与环境因子的关系。结果表明:在0-20cm土壤微生物生物量碳、生物量氮和生物量磷随海拔升高(峰顶降低)而增加,20-40cm土壤微生物生物量碳、生物量氮和生物量磷随海拔升高呈先升高后降低趋势;整体上,变形菌门、放线菌门、酸杆菌门、拟杆菌门、厚壁菌门在0-20cm中占优势,丰度总和占该层细菌总量的88.17%;变形菌门、放线菌门、酸杆菌门、厚壁菌门、绿弯菌门在20-40cm中占优势,丰度总和占该层细菌总量的90.82%;随海拔增加,0-20cm细菌多样性线性减少,20-40cm细菌多样性变化不显著;沿海拔梯度,0-20cm细菌群落组成可分为低(409-1018m),中(1018-1357m)和高(1410m)三个海拔聚集群落,20-40cm细菌群落组成随海拔无显著性变化;两土层细菌多样性与土壤pH显著正相关,土壤细菌群落组成在0-20cm主要受年均温度和pH影响,20-40cm受年均温度和土壤有机碳影响;根据Bray-Curtis指数,0-20cm和20-40cm土壤细菌相似性随地理距离的增加逐渐降低,细菌群落相似性随环境距离的增大也逐渐降低。总之,尖峰岭土壤细菌多样性和群落组成的海拔格局受土壤深度影响,且驱动细菌群落组成变化的因素在土层间不同,暗示在未来气候变化背景下,热带森林0-20cm和20-40cm土壤微生物群落可能具有不同的响应机制。 Abstract:The variation of soil microbial community structure along the altitudinal gradient is an important content of microbial biogeographic differentiation and community spatial distribution. However, the altitudinal pattern of soil microbial diversity and its community characteristics in tropical forests is not clear. This paper studied the changes of bacterial diversity and community composition and their relationship with environmental factors in 0-20cm and 20-40cm soil depths along the altitudinal gradient (400-1410 m) in Jianfengling Nature Reserve, Hainan Province. The results showed that the soil microbial biomass carbon, biomass nitrogen and biomass phosphorus increased with the elevation of 0-20cm (the peak decreased), and the soil microbial biomass carbon, biomass nitrogen and biomass phosphorus increased first and then decreased with the elevation of 20-40cm. On the whole, Proteobacteria, Actinomycetes, Acidobacteria, Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes are dominant in 0-20cm, and the total abundance accounts for 88.17% of the total bacteria in this layer; Proteobacteria, Actinomycetes, Acidobacteria, Firmicutes and Chloroflexi are dominant in 20-40cm, and the total abundance accounts for 90.82% of the total bacteria in this layer. With the increase of altitude, the bacterial diversity decreased linearly in 0-20cm, and that of 20-40cm did not change significantly. The bacterial community composition of 0-20cm can be divided into three communities at low altitude (409-1018 m), medium altitude (1018-1357 m), and high altitude (1410 m) and the bacterial community composition of 20-40cm has no significant change with altitude. There was a significantly positive correlation between bacterial diversity and soil pH in the two soil depths. The composition of soil bacterial community was mainly affected by mean annual temperature and pH at 0-20cm, and by mean annual temperature and soil organic carbon at 20-40cm. According to the Bray Curtis index, the similarity of bacteria in 0-20cm and 20-40cm soil depths decreased with the increase of geographical distance, and the similarity of bacterial community also decreased with the increase of environmental distance. In a word, the altitudinal pattern of soil bacterial diversity and community composition in Jianfengling is affected by soil depth, and the factors driving the change of bacterial community composition are different among soil depths. It is suggested that the soil microbial communities in 0-20cm and 20-40cm of tropical forests may have different response mechanisms under the background of future climate change. 参考文献 相似文献 引证文献

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Spatial patterns of bacterial abundance, activity and community composition in relation to water masses in the eastern Mediterranean Sea
  • Apr 8, 2010
  • Aquatic Microbial Ecology
  • T Yokokawa + 3 more

AME Aquatic Microbial Ecology Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout the JournalEditorsSpecials AME 59:185-195 (2010) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/ame01393 Spatial patterns of bacterial abundance, activity and community composition in relation to water masses in the eastern Mediterranean Sea Taichi Yokokawa1,*, Daniele De Corte1,2, Eva Sintes3, Gerhard J. Herndl1,3 1Department of Biological Oceanography, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), PO Box 59, 1790 AB, Den Burg, The Netherlands 2Center for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, University of Groningen, PO Box 14, 9750 AA Haren, The Netherlands 3University of Vienna, Department of Marine Biology, Faculty Center of Ecology, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria *Email: taichi.yokokawa@nioz.nl ABSTRACT: To determine the variation of bacterial activity and community composition between and within specific water masses, samples were collected throughout the water column at 5 stations in the eastern Mediterranean Sea corresponding to the regions of the northern Aegean, mid-Aegean, western Cretan, Ionian and southern Aegean Seas. Prokaryotic abundance below 100 m declined with depth at all the stations, while decreasing trends with depth in prokaryotic heterotrophic activity were present only at 2 out of the 5 stations. Bacterial community composition (BCC), determined using both automated rRNA intergenic spacer analysis and terminal-restriction-fragment length polymorphism, was also related to depth although the number of operational taxonomic units was remarkably constant throughout the water column. Overall, the maximums in similarity values of the BCC between water sample pairs decreased with increasing temperature–salinity (T–S) distance of the water samples probably due to distinct biogeochemical characteristics of water masses. However, considerable dissimilarity in the BCC between samples with identical T–S values, and hence within the same water mass, was also observed, possibly reflecting heterogeneity in the organic matter field or in biotic control within a given water body. Thus, we conclude that the richness of bacterial communities is remarkably constant with depth down to bathypelagic waters. The similarity of bacterial communities in water parcels with identical temperature and salinity can range from highly similar to very dissimilar, reflecting variability in substrate supply despite the physical uniformity of water parcels. KEY WORDS: Bacteria · Community composition · Patchiness · Spatial scale · Eastern Mediterranean Sea Full text in pdf format PreviousNextCite this article as: Yokokawa T, De Corte D, Sintes E, Herndl GJ (2010) Spatial patterns of bacterial abundance, activity and community composition in relation to water masses in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Aquat Microb Ecol 59:185-195. https://doi.org/10.3354/ame01393 Export citation RSS - Facebook - Tweet - linkedIn Cited by Published in AME Vol. 59, No. 2. Online publication date: April 08, 2010 Print ISSN: 0948-3055; Online ISSN: 1616-1564 Copyright © 2010 Inter-Research.

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