Is there convergence of gut microbes in blood-feeding vertebrates?
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60077344%3A_____%2F19%3A00520560" target="_blank" >RIV/60077344:_____/19:00520560 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstb.2018.0249" target="_blank" >https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstb.2018.0249</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0249" target="_blank" >10.1098/rstb.2018.0249</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Is there convergence of gut microbes in blood-feeding vertebrates?
Original language description
Animal microbiome play an important role in dietary adaptation, yet the extent to which microbiome changes exhibit parallel evolution is unclear. Of particular interest is an adaptation to extreme diets, such as blood, which poses special challenges in its content of proteins and lack of essential nutrients. In this stud v, eve assessed taxonomic signatures (by 16S rRNA amplicon profiling) and potential functional signatures (inferred by Phi ogenetic Investigation of Communities by Reconstruction of Unobserved States (PICRUSt)) of haematophagy in birds and bats. Our goal was to test three alternative hypotheses: no convergence of microbiomes, convergence in taxonomy and convergence in function. We find a statistically significant effect of haematophagy in terms of microbial taxonomic convergence across the blood-feeding bats and birds, although this effect is small compared to the differences found between haematophagous and non-haematophagous species within the two host Glades. We also find some evidence of convergence at the predicted functional level, although it is possible that the lack of meta-genontic data and the poor representation of microbial lineages adapted to haematophagy in genome databases limit the power of this approach. The results provide a paradigm for exploring convergent microbiome evolution replicated with independent contrasts in different host lineages.
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
10602 - Biology (theoretical, mathematical, thermal, cryobiology, biological rhythm), Evolutionary biology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Philosophical transactions of the royal society B-Biological Sciences
ISSN
1471-2970
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
374
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1777
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
20180249
UT code for WoS article
000472215500015
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85067014420