Relationships Between Gastrointestinal Parasite Infections and the Fecal Microbiome in Free-Ranging Western Lowland Gorillas
Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE Jazyk angličtina Země Švýcarsko Médium electronic-ecollection
Typ dokumentu časopisecké články
PubMed
29963018
PubMed Central
PMC6013710
DOI
10.3389/fmicb.2018.01202
Knihovny.cz E-zdroje
- Klíčová slova
- Entamoeba, bacteria, fecal microbiome, lowland gorilla, parasite infection, strongylid nematodes,
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
Relationships between gastrointestinal parasites (GIPs) and the gastrointestinal microbiome (GIM) are widely discussed topics across mammalian species due to their possible impact on the host's health. GIPs may change the environment determining alterations in GIM composition. We evaluated the associations between GIP infections and fecal microbiome composition in two habituated and two unhabituated groups of wild western lowland gorillas (Gorilla g. gorilla) from Dzanga Sangha Protected Areas, Central African Republic. We examined 43 fecal samples for GIPs and quantified strongylid nematodes. We characterized fecal microbiome composition through 454 pyrosequencing of the V1-V3 region of the bacterial 16S rRNA gene. Entamoeba spp. infections were associated with significant differences in abundances of bacterial taxa that likely play important roles in nutrition and metabolism for the host, besides being characteristic members of the gorilla gut microbiome. We did not observe any relationships between relative abundances of several bacterial taxa and strongylid egg counts. Based on our findings, we suggest that there is a significant relationship between fecal microbiome and Entamoeba infection in wild gorillas. This study contributes to the overall knowledge about factors involved in modulating GIM communities in great apes.
Department of Animal and Range Sciences Montana State University Bozeman MT United States
Department of Animal Science University of Minnesota St Paul MN United States
Department of Anthropology University of Colorado at Boulder Boulder CO United States
Department of Anthropology University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Urbana IL United States
Department of Microbiology University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Urbana IL United States
Institute of Parasitology Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences České Budějovice Czechia
Institute of Vertebrate Biology Czech Academy of Sciences Brno Czechia
J Craig Venter Institute La Jolla CA United States
J Craig Venter Institute Rockville MD United States
WWF Dzanga Sangha Protected Areas Bangui Central African Republic
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