Department of Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
Archipelago Consulting, Portland, ME 04112, USA.
Biol Lett. 2023 Mar;19(3):20220547. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2022.0547. Epub 2023 Mar 8.
Animals in captive and urban environments encounter evolutionarily novel conditions shaped by humans, such as altered diets, exposure to human-associated bacteria, and, potentially, medical interventions. Captive and urban environments have been demonstrated to affect gut microbial composition and diversity independently but have not yet been studied together. By sequencing the gut microbiota of deer mice living in laboratory, zoo, urban and natural settings, we sought to identify (i) whether captive deer mouse gut microbiota have similar composition regardless of husbandry conditions and (ii) whether captive and urban deer mice have similar gut microbial composition. We found that the gut microbiota of captive deer mice were distinct from those of free-living deer mice, indicating captivity has a consistent effect on the deer mouse microbiota regardless of location, lineage or husbandry conditions for a population. Additionally, the gut microbial composition, diversity and bacterial load of free-living urban mice were distinct from those of all other environment types. Together, these results indicate that gut microbiota associated with captivity and urbanization are likely not a shared response to increased exposure to humans but rather are shaped by environmental features intrinsic to captive and urban conditions.
动物在圈养和城市环境中会遇到由人类塑造的进化上新颖的条件,例如改变饮食、接触与人类相关的细菌,以及潜在的医疗干预。已经证明,圈养和城市环境可以独立影响肠道微生物组成和多样性,但尚未一起进行研究。通过对生活在实验室、动物园、城市和自然环境中的鹿鼠的肠道微生物进行测序,我们试图确定:(i) 无论饲养条件如何,圈养鹿鼠的肠道微生物群落是否具有相似的组成;(ii) 圈养和城市鹿鼠的肠道微生物群落是否具有相似的组成。我们发现,圈养鹿鼠的肠道微生物群与自由生活的鹿鼠不同,这表明无论种群的位置、谱系或饲养条件如何,圈养对鹿鼠微生物群都有一致的影响。此外,自由生活的城市老鼠的肠道微生物组成、多样性和细菌负荷与其他所有环境类型都不同。总之,这些结果表明,与圈养和城市化相关的肠道微生物群可能不是对与人类接触增加的共同反应,而是由圈养和城市环境固有的环境特征塑造的。
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