Species-specific but not phylosymbiotic gut microbiomes of New Guinean passerine birds are shaped by diet and flight-associated gut modifications
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12310%2F21%3A43902969" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12310/21:43902969 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60077344:_____/21:00544051
Result on the web
<a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2021.0446" target="_blank" >https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2021.0446</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0446" target="_blank" >10.1098/rspb.2021.0446</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Species-specific but not phylosymbiotic gut microbiomes of New Guinean passerine birds are shaped by diet and flight-associated gut modifications
Original language description
Animal hosts have evolved intricate associations with microbial symbionts, where both depend on each other for particular functions. In many cases, these associations lead to phylosymbiosis, where phylogenetically related species harbour compositionally more similar microbiomes than distantly related species. However, evidence for phylosymbiosis is either weak or lacking in gut microbiomes of flying vertebrates, particularly in birds. To shed more light on this phenomenon, we compared cloacal microbiomes of 37 tropical passerine bird species from New Guinea using 16S rRNA bacterial gene sequencing. We show a lack of phylosymbiosis and document highly variable microbiomes. Furthermore, we find that gut bacterial community compositions are species-specific and tend to be shaped by host diet but not sampling locality, potentially driven by the similarities in habitats used by individual species. We further show that flight-associated gut modifications, coupled with individual dietary differences, shape gut microbiome structure and variation, contributing to the lack of phylosymbiosis. These patterns indicate that the stability of symbiosis may depend on microbial functional diversity rather than taxonomic composition. Furthermore, the more variable and fluid host-microbe associations suggest probable disparities in the potential for coevolution between bird host species and microbial symbionts.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10618 - Ecology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GJ18-23794Y" target="_blank" >GJ18-23794Y: Latitudinal trends in herbivore performance and herbivore damage in hostile and enemy free space</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B - Biological Sciences
ISSN
0962-8452
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
288
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1949
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
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UT code for WoS article
000642210600007
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85105905860