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ArticleEnvironmental microbiology reports2024

Consistent spatial patterns in microbial taxa of red squirrel gut microbiomes.

Alicia Halhed, Lauren Petrullo, Stan Boutin, Ben Dantzer, Andrew McAdam, Martin Wu, Karl Cottenie

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Article in Environmental microbiology reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Alicia HalhedDepartment of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-7612-2405
Lauren PetrulloDepartment of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6464-3177
Stan BoutinDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-6317-038X
Ben DantzerDepartment of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3058-265X
Andrew McAdamDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7323-2572
Martin WuDepartment of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3093-4077
Karl CottenieDepartment of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-9498-8483

Funding

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Discovery Grant)Shared Hierarchical Academic Research Computing Network (Compute Canada)
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gut microbiomes are diverse ecosystems whose drivers of variation remain largely unknown, especially in time and space. We analysed a dataset with over 900 red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) gut microbiome samples to identify the drivers of gut microbiome composition in this territorial rodent. The large-scale spatiotemporal replication in the data analysed was an essential component of understanding the assembly of these microbial communities. We identified that the spatial location of the sampled squirrels in their local environment is a key contributor to gut microbial community composition. The non-core gut microbiome (present in less than 75% of gut microbiome samples) had highly localised spatial patterns throughout different seasons and different study areas in the host squirrel population. The core gut microbiome, on the other hand, showed some spatial patterns, though fewer than in the non-core gut microbiome. Environmental transmission of microbiota is the likely contributor to the spatiotemporal distribution observed in the North American red squirrel gut microbiome.

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Gastrointestinal MicrobiomeMicrobiotaAnimalsRNA, Ribosomal, 16SSciuridaeSeasonsRNA, Ribosomal, 16S

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PMID37943285
PMCPMC10866585

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