Institute of Animal Science, University of Hohenheim, Emil-Wolff-Str. 6-10, 70593 Stuttgart, Germany.
HoLMiR-Hohenheim Center for Livestock Microbiome Research, University of Hohenheim, Leonore-Blosser-Reisen Weg 3, 70593 Stuttgart, Germany.
Viruses. 2023 Apr 12;15(4):951. doi: 10.3390/v15040951.
Ensilaging is one of the most common feed preservation processes using lactic acid bacteria to stabilize feed and save feed quality. The silage bacterial community is well known but the role of the virome and its relationship with the bacterial community is scarce. In the present study, metagenomics and amplicon sequencing were used to describe the composition of the bacterial and viral community during a 40-day grass silage preservation. During the first two days, we observed a rapid decrease in the pH and a shift in the bacterial and viral composition. The diversity of the dominant virus operational taxonomic units (vOTUs) decreased throughout the preservation. The changes in the bacterial community resembled the predicted putative host of the recovered vOTUs during each sampling time. Only 10% of the total recovered vOTUs clustered with a reference genome. Different antiviral defense mechanisms were found across the recovered metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs); however, only a history of bacteriophage infection with and was observed. In addition, vOTUs harbored potential auxiliary metabolic genes related to carbohydrate metabolism, organic nitrogen, stress tolerance, and transport. Our data suggest that vOTUs are enriched during grass silage preservation, and they could have a role in the establishment of the bacterial community.
青贮是利用乳酸菌稳定饲料和保存饲料质量的最常见的饲料保存方法之一。青贮细菌群落是众所周知的,但病毒组及其与细菌群落的关系的作用却很少被研究。在本研究中,宏基因组学和扩增子测序被用于描述在 40 天的草青贮保存过程中细菌和病毒群落的组成。在最初的两天中,我们观察到 pH 值的快速下降和细菌和病毒组成的变化。优势病毒操作分类单元(vOTUs)的多样性在整个保存过程中逐渐降低。细菌群落的变化与每个采样时间恢复的 vOTUs 的预测可能宿主相似。在总共恢复的 vOTUs 中,只有 10%聚类到参考基因组。在恢复的宏基因组组装基因组(MAGs)中发现了不同的抗病毒防御机制;然而,只观察到了与 和 的噬菌体感染的历史。此外,vOTUs 携带与碳水化合物代谢、有机氮、应激耐受和运输有关的潜在辅助代谢基因。我们的数据表明,vOTUs 在草青贮保存过程中得到了富集,它们可能在细菌群落的建立中发挥作用。
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