Comparative analysis of intestine microbiota of four wild waterbird species

Sivan Laviad-Shitrit; Ido Izhaki; Maya Lalzar; Malka Halpern

doi:10.3389/fmicb.2019.01911

Comparative analysis of intestine microbiota of four wild waterbird species

Sivan Laviad-Shitrit, Ido Izhaki, Maya Lalzar, Malka Halpern

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Abstract

Waterbirds are ubiquitous and globally distributed. Yet, studies on wild waterbirds’ gut microbiota are still rare. Our aim was to explore and compare the gut microbial community composition of wild waterbird species. Four wild waterbird species that are either wintering or all-year residents in Israel were studied: great cormorants, little egrets, black-crowned night herons and black-headed gulls. For each bird, three intestinal sections were sampled; anterior, middle and posterior. No significant differences were found among the microbiota compositions in the three intestine sections of each individual bird. Each waterbird species had a unique microbial composition. The gut microbiota of the black-headed gulls’ fundamentally deviated from that of the other bird species, probably due to a very high abundance (58.8%) of the genus Catellicoccus (Firmicutes). Our results suggest a correlation between the waterbird species’ phylogeny and their intestine microbial community hierarchical tree, which evinced phylosymbiosis. This recent coinage stands for eco-evolutionary patterns between the host phylogeny and its microbiota composition. We conclude that eco-evolutionary processes termed phylosymbiosis may occur between wild waterbird species and their gut microbial community composition.

Original language	English
Article number	1911
Journal	Frontiers in Microbiology
Volume	10
Issue number	AUG
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.01911
State	Published - 2019

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by a grant from the Israel Science Foundation (ISF Grant No. 296/16) and in part by the Binational Science Foundation (BSF Grant No. 2015103). We would like to thank Shaul Nir, Roy Talbi, and Daniel Berkowic for providing us with original waterbird pictures. We thank Yehonatan Sharaby for his help with the statistical analyses. Our special thanks also go to Andrew W. Brooks and Kevin D. Kohl for their assistance in the statistical analyses of the phylosymbiotic patterns.

Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by a grant from the Israel Science Foundation (ISF Grant No. 296/16) and in part by the Binational Science Foundation (BSF Grant No. 2015103).

Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Laviad-Shitrit, Izhaki, Lalzar and Halpern.

Keywords

Bacterial community composition
Eco-evolution
Microbiome
Microbiota
Phylosymbiosis
Waterbird

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Microbiology
Microbiology (medical)

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