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ArticleEvolutionary human sciences2023

Agta hunter-gatherer oral microbiomes are shaped by contact network structure.

Federico Musciotto, Begoña Dobon, Michael Greenacre, Alex Mira, Nikhil Chaudhary, Gul Deniz Salali, Pascale Gerbault, Rodolph Schlaepfer, Leonora H Astete, Marilyn Ngales and 6 more

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16 authors.

Federico MusciottoDipartimento di Fisica e Chimica, Università di Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
Begoña DobonDepartment of Anthropology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5608-6021
Michael GreenacreDepartment of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra & Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, Barcelona, Spain.
Alex MiraDepartment of Health and Genomics, Center for Advanced Research in Public Health, FISABIO Foundation, Valencia, Spain.
Nikhil ChaudharyDepartment of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7528-8529
Gul Deniz SalaliDepartment of Anthropology, University College London, London, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9538-3064
Pascale GerbaultDepartment of Genetics and Evolution, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
Rodolph SchlaepferDepartment of Anthropology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Leonora H AsteteLyceum of the Philippines University, Intramuros, Manila, Philippines.
Marilyn NgalesLyceum of the Philippines University, Intramuros, Manila, Philippines.
Jesus Gomez-GardenesGOTHAM Lab, Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems, and Department of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain.
Vito LatoraSchool of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
Federico BattistonDepartment of Anthropology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Jaume BertranpetitInstitut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona, Spain.
Lucio ViniciusDepartment of Anthropology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9396-3249
Andrea Bamberg MiglianoDepartment of Anthropology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4364-2735

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Abstract

Here we investigate the effects of extensive sociality and mobility on the oral microbiome of 138 Agta hunter-gatherers from the Philippines. Our comparisons of microbiome composition showed that the Agta are more similar to Central African BaYaka hunter-gatherers than to neighbouring farmers. We also defined the Agta social microbiome as a set of 137 oral bacteria (only 7% of 1980 amplicon sequence variants) significantly influenced by social contact (quantified through wireless sensors of short-range interactions). We show that large interaction networks including strong links between close kin, spouses and even unrelated friends can significantly predict bacterial transmission networks across Agta camps. Finally, we show that more central individuals to social networks are also bacterial supersharers. We conclude that hunter-gatherer social microbiomes are predominantly pathogenic and were shaped by evolutionary tradeoffs between extensive sociality and disease spread.

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