Relationships Between Gastrointestinal Parasite Infections and the Fecal Microbiome in Free-Ranging Western Lowland Gorillas
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/60077344:_____/18:00498842 RIV/68081766:_____/18:00491093 RIV/62157124:16810/18:43876285
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.01202" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.01202</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.01202" target="_blank" >10.3389/fmicb.2018.01202</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Relationships Between Gastrointestinal Parasite Infections and the Fecal Microbiome in Free-Ranging Western Lowland Gorillas
Original language description
Relationships between gastrointestinal parasites (GIPs) and the gastrointestinal microbiome (GIM) are widely discussed topics across mammalian species due to their possible impact on the host's health. GIPs may change the environment determining alterations in GIM composition. We evaluated the associations between GIP infections and fecal microbiome composition in two habituated and two unhabituated groups of wild western lowland gorillas (Gorilla g. gorilla) from Dzanga Sangha Protected Areas, Central African Republic. We examined 43 fecal samples for GIPs and quantified strongylid nematodes. We characterized fecal microbiome composition through 454 pyrosequencing of the V1-V3 region of the bacterial 16S rRNA gene. Entamoeba spp. infections were associated with significant differences in abundances of bacterial taxa that likely play important roles in nutrition and metabolism for the host, besides being characteristic members of the gorilla gut microbiome. We did not observe any relationships between relative abundances of several bacterial taxa and strongylid egg counts. Based on our findings, we suggest that there is a significant relationship between fecal microbiome and Entamoeba infection in wild gorillas. This study contributes to the overall knowledge about factors involved in modulating GIM communities in great apes.
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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
40301 - Veterinary science
Result continuities
Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Frontiers in Microbiology
ISSN
1664-302X
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
9
Issue of the periodical within the volume
JUN
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
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UT code for WoS article
000435360900001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85048592882