Anthropogenic interferences lead to gut microbiome dysbiosis in Asian elephants and may alter adaptation processes to surrounding environments
Moustafa Mohamed Abdallah Mohamed; Nonaka Nariaki; Lahdenperä Mirkka; Thu May June; Nakao Ryo; Bawm Saw; Ohsawa Natsuo; Katakura Ken; Chel Hla Myet; Mohamed Wessam Mohamed Ahmed; Oo Zaw Min; Ito Kimihito; Win Mar Mar; Htun Lat Lat
Anthropogenic interferences lead to gut microbiome dysbiosis in Asian elephants and may alter adaptation processes to surrounding environments
Moustafa Mohamed Abdallah Mohamed
Nonaka Nariaki
Lahdenperä Mirkka
Thu May June
Nakao Ryo
Bawm Saw
Ohsawa Natsuo
Katakura Ken
Chel Hla Myet
Mohamed Wessam Mohamed Ahmed
Oo Zaw Min
Ito Kimihito
Win Mar Mar
Htun Lat Lat
Nature Publishing Group
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2021042821787
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2021042821787
Tiivistelmä
Human activities interfere with wild animals and lead to the loss of many animal populations. Therefore, efforts have been made to understand how wildlife can rebound from anthropogenic disturbances. An essential mechanism to adapt to environmental and social changes is the fluctuations in the host gut microbiome. Here we give a comprehensive description of anthropogenically induced microbiome alterations in Asian elephants (n = 30). We detected gut microbial changes due to overseas translocation, captivity and deworming. We found that microbes belonging to Planococcaceae had the highest contribution in the microbiome alterations after translocation, while Clostridiaceae, Spirochaetaceae and Bacteroidia were the most affected after captivity. However, deworming significantly changed the abundance of Flavobacteriaceae, Sphingobacteriaceae, Xanthomonadaceae, Weeksellaceae and Burkholderiaceae. These findings may provide fundamental ideas to help guide the preservation tactics and probiotic replacement therapies of a dysbiosed gut microbiome in Asian elephants. More generally, these results show the severity of anthropogenic activities at the level of gut microbiome, altering the adaptation processes to new environments and the subsequent capability to maintain normal physiological processes in animals.
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