ArticleAnimal microbiome2020
Maternal influences on oral and faecal microbiota maturation in neonatal calves in beef and dairy production systems.
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- Insights into microbial compositions of the respiratory tract of neonatal dairy calves in a longitudinal probiotic trial through 16S rRNA sequencing.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- Modulations in gastrointestinal microbiota during postpartum period fulfill energy requirements and maintain health of lactating Tibetan cattle.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
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- Specific pathway abundances in the neonatal calf faecal microbiome are associated with susceptibility to Cryptosporidium parvum infection: a metagenomic analysis.Animal microbiome · 2023Article
- The impact of vitamin D3 supplementation on the faecal and oral microbiome of dairy calves indoors or at pasture.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The spatial dissimilarities and connections of the microbiota in the upper and lower respiratory tract of beef cattle.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2023Article
- Whole-body microbiota of newborn calves and their response to prenatal vitamin and mineral supplementation.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Bovine neonatal microbiome origins: a review of proposed microbial community presence from conception to colostrum.Translational animal science · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe dam is considered an important source of microbes for the calf; consequently, the development of calf microbiota may vary with farming system due to differences between the contact the calf has with the dam. The objective of this study was to characterise the early changes in the composition of oral and faecal microbiota in beef and dairy calves (N = 10) using high-throughput sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene. The microbiota of calves was compared to selected anatomical niches on their dams which were likely to contribute to the vertical transfer of microbes.
resultsA total of 14,125 amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) were identified and taxonomically assigned. The oral microbiota of calves and their dams were composed of more similar microbes after the first 4 weeks of life than immediately after calving. The faecal microbiota of four-week old calves was composed of microbes which were more similar to those found in the oral microbiota of calves and adult cows than the faecal microbiota of adult cows. Specific ASVs were identified in the oral microbiota of four-week old calves that were also present in cow niches at calving, whereas very few ASVs were present in the calf faecal microbiota at four-weeks of age were present in any adult cow niche at calving. These results were observed in both beef and dairy calves.
conclusionsWe did not observe any marked differences in the maturation of the oral and faecal microbiota between beef or dairy calves, despite dairy calves having very limited contact with their dam. This suggests the development of gastrointestinal microbiota in calves may not be affected by continued vertical transmission of microbes from the dam. Although the calf faecal microbiota changed over the first four-weeks of life, it was composed of microbes which were phylogenetically closer to those in the oral microbiota of calves and adult cows than the faeces of adult cows. There was little evidence of persistent microbial seeding of the calf faeces from anatomical niches on the cow at calving in either beef or dairy animals.
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