Bacterial communities along parrot digestive and respiratory tracts: the effects of sample type, species and time

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11310/24:10482730

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10123-023-00372-y" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10123-023-00372-y</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10123-023-00372-y" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10123-023-00372-y</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Bacterial communities along parrot digestive and respiratory tracts: the effects of sample type, species and time

Original language description

Digestive and respiratory tracts are inhabited by rich bacterial communities that can vary between their different segments. In comparison with other bird taxa with developed caeca, parrots that lack caeca have relatively lower variability in intestinal morphology. Here, based on 16S rRNA metabarcoding, we describe variation in microbiota across different parts of parrot digestive and respiratory tracts both at interspecies and intraspecies levels. In domesticated budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus), we describe the bacterial variation across eight selected sections of respiratory and digestive tracts, and three non-destructively collected sample types (faeces, and cloacal and oral swabs). Our results show important microbiota divergence between the upper and lower digestive tract, but similarities between respiratory tract and crop, and also between different intestinal segments. Faecal samples appear to provide a better proxy for intestinal microbiota composition than the cloacal swabs. Oral swabs had a similar bacterial composition as the crop and trachea. For a subset of tissues, we confirmed the same pattern also in six different parrot species. Finally, using the faeces and oral swabs in budgerigars, we revealed high oral, but low faecal microbiota stability during a 3-week period mimicking pre-experiment acclimation. Our findings provide a basis essential for microbiota-related experimental planning and result generalisation in non-poultry birds.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10606 - Microbiology

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International Microbiology

ISSN

1139-6709

e-ISSN

1618-1905

Volume of the periodical

27

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

ES - SPAIN

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

127-142

UT code for WoS article

000994095900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85160277858