- Title
- Microbiota of little penguins and short-tailed shearwaters during development
- Creator
- Dewar, Meagan; Arnould, John; Allnutt, Theo; Crowley, Tamsyn; Krause, Lutz; Reynolds, John; Dann, Peter; Smith, Stuart
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/163282
- Identifier
- vital:12801
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0183117
- Identifier
- ISBN:1932-6203
- Abstract
- The establishment and early colonisation of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract has been recognised as a crucial stage in chick development, with pioneering microbial species responsible for influencing the development of the GI tract and influencing host health, fitness and disease status throughout life. Development of the microbiota in long lived seabirds is poorly understood. This study characterised the microbial composition of little penguin and short-tailed shearwater chicks throughout development, using Quantitative Real Time PCR (qPCR) and 16S rRNA sequencing. The results indicated that microbial development differed between the two seabird species with the short-tailed shearwater microbiota being relatively stable throughout development whilst significant fluctuations in the microbial composition and an upward trend in the abundance of Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes were observed in the little penguin. When the microbial composition of adults and chicks was compared, both species showed low similarity in microbial composition, indicating that the adult microbiota may have a negligible influence over the chick’s microbiota.
- Relation
- PLoS ONE Vol. 12, no. 8 (2017), p.
- Rights
- © 2017 Dewar et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- MD Multidisciplinary
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