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dc.contributor.authorBletz, Molly C
dc.contributor.authorGoedbloed, Daniel J
dc.contributor.authorSanchez, Eugenia
dc.contributor.authorReinhardt, Timm
dc.contributor.authorTebbe, Christoph C
dc.contributor.authorBhuju, Sabin
dc.contributor.authorGeffers, Robert
dc.contributor.authorJarek, Michael
dc.contributor.authorVences, Miguel
dc.contributor.authorSteinfartz, Sebastian
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-31T12:24:38Z
dc.date.available2017-01-31T12:24:38Z
dc.date.issued2016-12-15
dc.identifier.citationAmphibian gut microbiota shifts differentially in community structure but converges on habitat-specific predicted functions. 2016, 7:13699 Nat Communen
dc.identifier.issn2041-1723
dc.identifier.pmid27976718
dc.identifier.doi10.1038/ncomms13699
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10033/620798
dc.description.abstractComplex microbial communities inhabit vertebrate digestive systems but thorough understanding of the ecological dynamics and functions of host-associated microbiota within natural habitats is limited. We investigate the role of environmental conditions in shaping gut and skin microbiota under natural conditions by performing a field survey and reciprocal transfer experiments with salamander larvae inhabiting two distinct habitats (ponds and streams). We show that gut and skin microbiota are habitat-specific, demonstrating environmental factors mediate community structure. Reciprocal transfer reveals that gut microbiota, but not skin microbiota, responds differentially to environmental change. Stream-to-pond larvae shift their gut microbiota to that of pond-to-pond larvae, whereas pond-to-stream larvae change to a community structure distinct from both habitat controls. Predicted functions, however, match that of larvae from the destination habitats in both cases. Thus, microbial function can be matched without taxonomic coherence and gut microbiota appears to exhibit metagenomic plasticity.
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/*
dc.titleAmphibian gut microbiota shifts differentially in community structure but converges on habitat-specific predicted functions.en
dc.typeArticleen
dc.contributor.departmentHelmholtz Centre for infection research. Inhoffenstr. 7. 38124 Braunschweig, Germany.en
dc.identifier.journalNature communicationsen
refterms.dateFOA2018-06-13T09:07:10Z
html.description.abstractComplex microbial communities inhabit vertebrate digestive systems but thorough understanding of the ecological dynamics and functions of host-associated microbiota within natural habitats is limited. We investigate the role of environmental conditions in shaping gut and skin microbiota under natural conditions by performing a field survey and reciprocal transfer experiments with salamander larvae inhabiting two distinct habitats (ponds and streams). We show that gut and skin microbiota are habitat-specific, demonstrating environmental factors mediate community structure. Reciprocal transfer reveals that gut microbiota, but not skin microbiota, responds differentially to environmental change. Stream-to-pond larvae shift their gut microbiota to that of pond-to-pond larvae, whereas pond-to-stream larvae change to a community structure distinct from both habitat controls. Predicted functions, however, match that of larvae from the destination habitats in both cases. Thus, microbial function can be matched without taxonomic coherence and gut microbiota appears to exhibit metagenomic plasticity.


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