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New insights into the gut microbiome in loggerhead sea turtles Caretta caretta stranded on the Mediterranean coast

Caretta caretta is the most common sea turtle species in the Mediterranean Sea. The species is threatened by anthropomorphic activity that causes thousands of deaths and hundreds of strandings along the Mediterranean coast. Stranded turtles are often cared for in rehabilitation centres until they re...

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Autores principales: Arizza, Vincenzo, Vecchioni, Luca, Caracappa, Santo, Sciurba, Giulia, Berlinghieri, Flavia, Gentile, Antonino, Persichetti, Maria Flaminia, Arculeo, Marco, Alduina, Rosa
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6693768/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31412070
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0220329
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author Arizza, Vincenzo
Vecchioni, Luca
Caracappa, Santo
Sciurba, Giulia
Berlinghieri, Flavia
Gentile, Antonino
Persichetti, Maria Flaminia
Arculeo, Marco
Alduina, Rosa
author_facet Arizza, Vincenzo
Vecchioni, Luca
Caracappa, Santo
Sciurba, Giulia
Berlinghieri, Flavia
Gentile, Antonino
Persichetti, Maria Flaminia
Arculeo, Marco
Alduina, Rosa
author_sort Arizza, Vincenzo
collection PubMed
description Caretta caretta is the most common sea turtle species in the Mediterranean Sea. The species is threatened by anthropomorphic activity that causes thousands of deaths and hundreds of strandings along the Mediterranean coast. Stranded turtles are often cared for in rehabilitation centres until they recover or die. The objective of this study was to characterize the gut microbiome of nine sea turtles stranded along the Sicilian coast of the Mediterranean Sea using high-throughput sequencing analysis targeting V3–V4 regions of the bacterial 16S rRNA gene. Stool samples were collected from eight specimens hosted in the recovery centre after a few days of hospitalization (under 7) and from one hosted for many weeks (78 days). To better explore the role of bacterial communities in loggerhead sea turtles, we compared our data with published fecal microbiomes from specimens stranded along the Tuscan and Ligurian coast. Our results highlight that, despite the different origin, size and health conditions of the animals, Firmicutes, Bacteroidetes and Proteobacteria constitute the main components of the microbiota. This study widens our knowledge on the gut microbiome of sea turtles and could be helpful for the set up of rehabilitation therapies of stranded animals after recovery in specialized centres.
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spelling pubmed-66937682019-08-16 New insights into the gut microbiome in loggerhead sea turtles Caretta caretta stranded on the Mediterranean coast Arizza, Vincenzo Vecchioni, Luca Caracappa, Santo Sciurba, Giulia Berlinghieri, Flavia Gentile, Antonino Persichetti, Maria Flaminia Arculeo, Marco Alduina, Rosa PLoS One Research Article Caretta caretta is the most common sea turtle species in the Mediterranean Sea. The species is threatened by anthropomorphic activity that causes thousands of deaths and hundreds of strandings along the Mediterranean coast. Stranded turtles are often cared for in rehabilitation centres until they recover or die. The objective of this study was to characterize the gut microbiome of nine sea turtles stranded along the Sicilian coast of the Mediterranean Sea using high-throughput sequencing analysis targeting V3–V4 regions of the bacterial 16S rRNA gene. Stool samples were collected from eight specimens hosted in the recovery centre after a few days of hospitalization (under 7) and from one hosted for many weeks (78 days). To better explore the role of bacterial communities in loggerhead sea turtles, we compared our data with published fecal microbiomes from specimens stranded along the Tuscan and Ligurian coast. Our results highlight that, despite the different origin, size and health conditions of the animals, Firmicutes, Bacteroidetes and Proteobacteria constitute the main components of the microbiota. This study widens our knowledge on the gut microbiome of sea turtles and could be helpful for the set up of rehabilitation therapies of stranded animals after recovery in specialized centres. Public Library of Science 2019-08-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6693768/ /pubmed/31412070 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0220329 Text en © 2019 Arizza et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Arizza, Vincenzo
Vecchioni, Luca
Caracappa, Santo
Sciurba, Giulia
Berlinghieri, Flavia
Gentile, Antonino
Persichetti, Maria Flaminia
Arculeo, Marco
Alduina, Rosa
New insights into the gut microbiome in loggerhead sea turtles Caretta caretta stranded on the Mediterranean coast
title New insights into the gut microbiome in loggerhead sea turtles Caretta caretta stranded on the Mediterranean coast
title_full New insights into the gut microbiome in loggerhead sea turtles Caretta caretta stranded on the Mediterranean coast
title_fullStr New insights into the gut microbiome in loggerhead sea turtles Caretta caretta stranded on the Mediterranean coast
title_full_unstemmed New insights into the gut microbiome in loggerhead sea turtles Caretta caretta stranded on the Mediterranean coast
title_short New insights into the gut microbiome in loggerhead sea turtles Caretta caretta stranded on the Mediterranean coast
title_sort new insights into the gut microbiome in loggerhead sea turtles caretta caretta stranded on the mediterranean coast
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6693768/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31412070
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0220329
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