野生天行长臂猿(Hoolock tianxing)肠道噬菌体组的生态进化动态与季节性饮食变化。
Eco-evolutionary dynamics of gut phageome in wild gibbons (Hoolock tianxing) with seasonal diet variations.
机构信息
School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, PR China.
College of Life Science, China West Normal University, Nanchong, 637002, PR China.
出版信息
Nat Commun. 2024 Feb 10;15(1):1254. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-45663-8.
It has been extensively studied that the gut microbiome provides animals flexibility to adapt to food variability. Yet, how gut phageome responds to diet variation of wild animals remains unexplored. Here, we analyze the eco-evolutionary dynamics of gut phageome in six wild gibbons (Hoolock tianxing) by collecting individually-resolved fresh fecal samples and parallel feeding behavior data for 15 consecutive months. Application of complementary viral and microbial metagenomics recovers 39,198 virulent and temperate phage genomes from the feces. Hierarchical cluster analyses show remarkable seasonal diet variations in gibbons. From high-fruit to high-leaf feeding period, the abundances of phage populations are seasonally fluctuated, especially driven by the increased abundance of virulent phages that kill the Lachnospiraceae hosts, and a decreased abundance of temperate phages that piggyback the Bacteroidaceae hosts. Functional profiling reveals an enrichment through horizontal gene transfers of toxin-antitoxin genes on temperate phage genomes in high-leaf season, potentially conferring benefits to their prokaryotic hosts. The phage-host ecological dynamics are driven by the coevolutionary processes which select for tail fiber and DNA primase genes on virulent and temperate phage genomes, respectively. Our results highlight complex phageome-microbiome interactions as a key feature of the gibbon gut microbial ecosystem responding to the seasonal diet.
大量研究表明,肠道微生物组为动物提供了适应食物变化的灵活性。然而,肠道噬菌体组如何响应野生动物的饮食变化仍未得到探索。在这里,我们通过收集 15 个月内个体分辨的新鲜粪便样本和并行的摄食行为数据,分析了六种野生长臂猿(天行长臂猿)肠道噬菌体组的生态进化动态。互补的病毒和微生物宏基因组学的应用从粪便中回收了 39198 个烈性和温和噬菌体基因组。层次聚类分析显示,长臂猿存在明显的季节性饮食变化。从高果期到高叶期,噬菌体种群的丰度呈季节性波动,特别是由杀死lachnospiraceae 宿主的烈性噬菌体的丰度增加和携带 bacteroidaceae 宿主的温和噬菌体的丰度减少驱动。功能分析揭示了在高叶期,温和噬菌体基因组上的毒素-抗毒素基因通过水平基因转移得到了富集,这可能给它们的原核宿主带来了好处。噬菌体-宿主的生态动态是由共进化过程驱动的,烈性和温和噬菌体基因组上分别选择了尾纤维和 DNA 引物酶基因。我们的研究结果强调了作为长臂猿肠道微生物生态系统对季节性饮食反应的关键特征的复杂噬菌体组-微生物组相互作用。