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Dietrich, Muriel
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Kearney, Teresa
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Seamark, E.C.J. (Ernest)
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Markotter, Wanda
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2017-04-26T12:43:59Z |
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2017-01 |
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Animal-associated microbiotas form complex communities, which play crucial functions for their host, including susceptibility to infections. Despite increasing attention to bats as reservoirs of zoonotic pathogens, their microbiota is poorly documented, especially for samples potentially implicated in pathogen transmission such as urine and saliva. Here, using low-biomass individual samples, we examined the composition and structure of bacterial communities excreted by insectivorous bats, focusing on three body habitats (saliva, urine and faeces). We show that niche specialisation occurs as bacterial community composition was distinct across body habitats with the majority of phylotypes being body habitat specific. Our results suggest that urine harbours more diverse bacterial communities than saliva and faeces and reveal potentially zoonotic bacteria such as Leptospira, Rickettsia, Bartonella and Coxiella in all body habitats. Our study emphasised that, in addition to the traditional use of gut-associated samples such as faeces, both urine and saliva are also of interest because of their diverse microbiota and the potential transmission of pathogenic bacteria. Our results represent a critical baseline for future studies investigating the interactions between microbiota and infection dynamics in bats. |
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Centre for Wildlife Management |
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Medical Virology |
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2018-01-31 |
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hb2017 |
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This work was supported by the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa [Grant UID 78566 (NRF RISP grant for the ABI3500), UID 91496 and UID 92524], and by the Grant or Cooperative Agreement Number, [1U2GGH001874-01], funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Centers for Disease Control and Preventionor the Department of Health and Human Services. MD’s postdoctoral fellowship is funded by
a Capacity Building Grant from the National Research Foundation, South Africa [Grant UID 92524]. |
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http://femsec.oxfordjournals.org |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Dietrich, M, Kearney, T, Seamark, ECJ & Markotter, W 2017, 'The excreted microbiota of bats : evidence of niche specialisation based on multiple body habitats', FEMS Microbiology Letters, vol. 364, no. 1. |
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dc.identifier.issn |
0168-6496 (print) |
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1574-6941 (online) |
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10.1093/femsle/fnw284 |
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http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60120 |
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en |
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dc.publisher |
Oxford University Press |
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dc.rights |
© FEMS 2016. All rights reserved. This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in FEMS Microbiology Ecology following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is : The excreted microbiota of bats : evidence of niche specialisation based on multiple body habitats, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol. 364, no. 1, 2017. doi : 10.1093/femsle/fnw284, is available online at : http://femsec.oxfordjournals.org. |
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dc.subject |
Microbiota |
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dc.subject |
Bats |
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Africa |
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Saliva |
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Urine |
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Faeces |
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dc.title |
The excreted microbiota of bats : evidence of niche specialisation based on multiple body habitats |
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dc.type |
Postprint Article |
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