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Linking migration and microbiota at a major stopover site in a long-distance avian migrant
Migration is one of the most physical and energetically demanding periods in an individual bird’s life. The composition of the bird’s gut or cloacal microbiota can temporarily change during migration, likely due to differences in diets, habitats and other environmental conditions experienced en rout...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9641824/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36345043 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40462-022-00347-0 |
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author | Thie, Nikki Corl, Ammon Turjeman, Sondra Efrat, Ron Kamath, Pauline L. Getz, Wayne M. Bowie, Rauri C. K. Nathan, Ran |
author_facet | Thie, Nikki Corl, Ammon Turjeman, Sondra Efrat, Ron Kamath, Pauline L. Getz, Wayne M. Bowie, Rauri C. K. Nathan, Ran |
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description | Migration is one of the most physical and energetically demanding periods in an individual bird’s life. The composition of the bird’s gut or cloacal microbiota can temporarily change during migration, likely due to differences in diets, habitats and other environmental conditions experienced en route. However, how physiological condition, migratory patterns, and other drivers interact to affect microbiota composition of migratory birds is still unclear. We sampled the cloacal bacterial microbiota of a long-distance migrant, the steppe buzzard (Buteo buteo vulpinus), at an important spring stopover bottleneck in Eilat, Israel, after crossing the ca. 1800 km Sahara Desert. We examined whether diversity and composition of the cloacal microbiota varied with body condition, sex, movement patterns (i.e., arrival time and migration distance), and survival. Early arrival to Eilat was associated with better body condition, longer post-Eilat spring migration distance, higher microbial α-diversity, and differences in microbiota composition. Specifically, early arrivals had higher abundance of the phylum Synergistota and five genera, including Jonquetella and Peptococcus, whereas the phylum Proteobacteria and genus Escherichia-Shigella (as well as three other genera) were more abundant in later arrivals. While the differences in α-diversity and Escherichia-Shigella seem to be mainly driven by body condition, other compositional differences associated with arrival date could be indicators of longer migratory journeys (e.g., pre-fueling at wintering grounds or stopover habitats along the way) or migratory performance. No significant differences were found between the microbiota of surviving and non-surviving individuals. Overall, our results indicate that variation in steppe buzzard microbiota is linked to variation in migratory patterns (i.e., capture/arrival date) and body condition, highlighting the importance of sampling the microbiota of GPS-tracked individuals on multiple occasions along their migration routes to gain a more detailed understanding of the links between migration, microbiota, and health in birds. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s40462-022-00347-0. |
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spelling | pubmed-96418242022-11-15 Linking migration and microbiota at a major stopover site in a long-distance avian migrant Thie, Nikki Corl, Ammon Turjeman, Sondra Efrat, Ron Kamath, Pauline L. Getz, Wayne M. Bowie, Rauri C. K. Nathan, Ran Mov Ecol Research Migration is one of the most physical and energetically demanding periods in an individual bird’s life. The composition of the bird’s gut or cloacal microbiota can temporarily change during migration, likely due to differences in diets, habitats and other environmental conditions experienced en route. However, how physiological condition, migratory patterns, and other drivers interact to affect microbiota composition of migratory birds is still unclear. We sampled the cloacal bacterial microbiota of a long-distance migrant, the steppe buzzard (Buteo buteo vulpinus), at an important spring stopover bottleneck in Eilat, Israel, after crossing the ca. 1800 km Sahara Desert. We examined whether diversity and composition of the cloacal microbiota varied with body condition, sex, movement patterns (i.e., arrival time and migration distance), and survival. Early arrival to Eilat was associated with better body condition, longer post-Eilat spring migration distance, higher microbial α-diversity, and differences in microbiota composition. Specifically, early arrivals had higher abundance of the phylum Synergistota and five genera, including Jonquetella and Peptococcus, whereas the phylum Proteobacteria and genus Escherichia-Shigella (as well as three other genera) were more abundant in later arrivals. While the differences in α-diversity and Escherichia-Shigella seem to be mainly driven by body condition, other compositional differences associated with arrival date could be indicators of longer migratory journeys (e.g., pre-fueling at wintering grounds or stopover habitats along the way) or migratory performance. No significant differences were found between the microbiota of surviving and non-surviving individuals. Overall, our results indicate that variation in steppe buzzard microbiota is linked to variation in migratory patterns (i.e., capture/arrival date) and body condition, highlighting the importance of sampling the microbiota of GPS-tracked individuals on multiple occasions along their migration routes to gain a more detailed understanding of the links between migration, microbiota, and health in birds. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s40462-022-00347-0. BioMed Central 2022-11-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9641824/ /pubmed/36345043 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40462-022-00347-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Thie, Nikki Corl, Ammon Turjeman, Sondra Efrat, Ron Kamath, Pauline L. Getz, Wayne M. Bowie, Rauri C. K. Nathan, Ran Linking migration and microbiota at a major stopover site in a long-distance avian migrant |
title | Linking migration and microbiota at a major stopover site in a long-distance avian migrant |
title_full | Linking migration and microbiota at a major stopover site in a long-distance avian migrant |
title_fullStr | Linking migration and microbiota at a major stopover site in a long-distance avian migrant |
title_full_unstemmed | Linking migration and microbiota at a major stopover site in a long-distance avian migrant |
title_short | Linking migration and microbiota at a major stopover site in a long-distance avian migrant |
title_sort | linking migration and microbiota at a major stopover site in a long-distance avian migrant |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9641824/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36345043 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40462-022-00347-0 |
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