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ArticleAnimal microbiome2024

Social, environmental, and developmental factors affect the microbiota of barn owls (Tyto alba) in a cross-fostering experiment.

Ammon Corl, Motti Charter, Gabe Rozman, Sondra Turjeman, Sivan Toledo, Pauline L Kamath, Wayne M Getz, Ran Nathan, Rauri C K Bowie

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9 authors.

Ammon Corl *Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, CA, 94720-3160, USA. ammoncorl@berkeley.edu.
Motti Charter *The Shamir Research Institute, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Haifa, 199 Aba Hushi Boulevard, Mount Carmel, Haifa, 3498838, Israel.
Gabe RozmanMovement Ecology Lab, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra Campus at Givat Ram, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel.
Sondra TurjemanMovement Ecology Lab, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra Campus at Givat Ram, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel.
Sivan ToledoBlavatnik School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Pauline L KamathSchool of Food and Agriculture, University of Maine, 5735 Hitchner Hall, Orono, ME, 04469, USA.
Wayne M GetzEnvironmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, VLSB 5048-B, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
Ran NathanMovement Ecology Lab, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra Campus at Givat Ram, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel.
Rauri C K BowieMuseum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, CA, 94720-3160, USA. bowie@berkeley.edu.

Funding

Israel Science Foundation 965/15National Science Foundation 1617982United States - Israel Binational Science Foundation 2015904
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundSpecies host diverse microbial communities that can impact their digestion and health, which has led to much interest in understanding the factors that influence their microbiota. We studied the developmental, environmental, and social factors that influence the microbiota of nestling barn owls (Tyto alba) through a partial cross-fostering experiment that manipulated the social and nest environment of the nestlings. We then examined the nestling microbiota before and three weeks after the exchange of nestlings between nests, along with the microbiota of the adults at the nest and nestlings in unmanipulated nests.

resultsWe found that nestlings had higher bacterial diversity and different bacterial communities than adults. The microbiota of nestlings was more like that of their mothers than their fathers, but the similarity to the father tended to increase with the amount of time the father was in close proximity to the nest, as measured from movement data. Cross-fostered offspring had higher bacterial diversity and greater changes in bacterial community composition over time than control offspring. Cross-fostering led the microbiota of the nestlings in the experiment to converge on similar bacterial communities. The microbiota of nestling owls therefore rapidly changed along with alterations to their social and nest environments.

conclusionsThese results highlight the dynamic nature of the microbiota during early development and that social interactions can shape microbial communities.

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Cross-fosteringDevelopmentMicrobiotaMovement ecologySocial transmissionTyto alba

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PMID39719636
PMCPMC11667991

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