Data from: Fur seal microbiota are shaped by the social and physical environment, show mother-offspring similarities and are associated with host genetic quality
Despite an increasing appreciation of the importance of host-microbe interactions in ecological and evolutionary processes, the factors shaping microbial communities in wild populations remain poorly understood. We therefore exploited a natural experiment provided by two adjacent Antarctic fur seal...
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ftdryad:oai:v1.datadryad.org:10255/dryad.209018 2023-05-15T14:02:26+02:00 Data from: Fur seal microbiota are shaped by the social and physical environment, show mother-offspring similarities and are associated with host genetic quality Grosser, Stefanie Sauer, Jan Paijmans, Anneke Caspers, Barbara Forcada, Jaume Wolf, Jochen Hoffman, Joseph Bird Island South Georgia 2019-02-27T16:19:57Z http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.209018 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.cj05t65 unknown doi:10.5061/dryad.cj05t65/1 doi:10.5061/dryad.cj05t65/2 doi:10.5061/dryad.cj05t65/3 doi:10.5061/dryad.cj05t65/4 doi:10.5061/dryad.cj05t65/5 doi:10.5061/dryad.cj05t65/6 doi:10.5061/dryad.cj05t65/7 doi:10.5061/dryad.cj05t65/8 doi:10.5061/dryad.cj05t65/9 doi:10.5061/dryad.cj05t65/10 doi:10.5061/dryad.cj05t65/11 doi:10.5061/dryad.cj05t65/12 doi:10.5061/dryad.cj05t65/13 doi:10.5061/dryad.cj05t65/14 doi:10.5061/dryad.cj05t65/15 doi:10.5061/dryad.cj05t65/16 doi:10.5061/dryad.cj05t65/17 doi:10.5061/dryad.cj05t65/18 doi:10.5061/dryad.cj05t65/19 doi:10.5061/dryad.cj05t65/20 doi:10.1111/mec.15070 doi:10.5061/dryad.cj05t65 Grosser S, Sauer J, Paijmans A, Caspers B, Forcada J, Wolf J, Hoffman J (2019) Fur seal microbiota are shaped by the social and physical environment, show mother-offspring similarities and are associated with host genetic quality. Molecular Ecology. http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.209018 skin microbiome mother–offspring recognition host control Inbreeding pinniped Article 2019 ftdryad https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.cj05t65 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.cj05t65/1 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.cj05t65/2 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.cj05t65/3 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.cj05t65/4 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.cj05t65/5 https 2020-01-01T16:24:35Z Despite an increasing appreciation of the importance of host-microbe interactions in ecological and evolutionary processes, the factors shaping microbial communities in wild populations remain poorly understood. We therefore exploited a natural experiment provided by two adjacent Antarctic fur seal ( Arctocephalus gazella ) colonies of high and low social density and combined 16S rRNA metabarcoding with microsatellite profiling of mother-offspring pairs to investigate environmental and genetic influences on skin microbial communities. Seal-associated bacterial communities differed profoundly between the two colonies, despite the host populations themselves being genetically undifferentiated. Consistent with the hypothesis that social stress depresses bacterial diversity, we found that microbial alpha diversity was significantly lower in the high-density colony. Seals from one of the colonies that contained a stream also carried a subset of freshwater-associated bacteria, indicative of an influence of the physical environment. Furthermore, mothers and their offspring shared similar microbial communities, in support of the notion that microbes may facilitate mother-offspring recognition. Finally, a significant negative association was found between bacterial diversity and heterozygosity, a measure of host genetic quality. Our study thus uncovers a complex interplay between environmental and host genetic effects, while also providing empirical support for the leash model of host control, which posits that bacterial communities are driven not only by bottom-up species interactions, but also by top-down host regulation. Taken together, our findings have broad implications for understanding host-microbe interactions as well as prokaryotic diversity in general. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctic Fur Seal Arctocephalus gazella Bird Island Dryad Digital Repository (Duke University) Antarctic Bird Island ENVELOPE(-38.060,-38.060,-54.004,-54.004) |
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skin microbiome mother–offspring recognition host control Inbreeding pinniped Grosser, Stefanie Sauer, Jan Paijmans, Anneke Caspers, Barbara Forcada, Jaume Wolf, Jochen Hoffman, Joseph Data from: Fur seal microbiota are shaped by the social and physical environment, show mother-offspring similarities and are associated with host genetic quality |
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Despite an increasing appreciation of the importance of host-microbe interactions in ecological and evolutionary processes, the factors shaping microbial communities in wild populations remain poorly understood. We therefore exploited a natural experiment provided by two adjacent Antarctic fur seal ( Arctocephalus gazella ) colonies of high and low social density and combined 16S rRNA metabarcoding with microsatellite profiling of mother-offspring pairs to investigate environmental and genetic influences on skin microbial communities. Seal-associated bacterial communities differed profoundly between the two colonies, despite the host populations themselves being genetically undifferentiated. Consistent with the hypothesis that social stress depresses bacterial diversity, we found that microbial alpha diversity was significantly lower in the high-density colony. Seals from one of the colonies that contained a stream also carried a subset of freshwater-associated bacteria, indicative of an influence of the physical environment. Furthermore, mothers and their offspring shared similar microbial communities, in support of the notion that microbes may facilitate mother-offspring recognition. Finally, a significant negative association was found between bacterial diversity and heterozygosity, a measure of host genetic quality. Our study thus uncovers a complex interplay between environmental and host genetic effects, while also providing empirical support for the leash model of host control, which posits that bacterial communities are driven not only by bottom-up species interactions, but also by top-down host regulation. Taken together, our findings have broad implications for understanding host-microbe interactions as well as prokaryotic diversity in general. |
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Grosser, Stefanie Sauer, Jan Paijmans, Anneke Caspers, Barbara Forcada, Jaume Wolf, Jochen Hoffman, Joseph |
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Grosser, Stefanie Sauer, Jan Paijmans, Anneke Caspers, Barbara Forcada, Jaume Wolf, Jochen Hoffman, Joseph |
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Data from: Fur seal microbiota are shaped by the social and physical environment, show mother-offspring similarities and are associated with host genetic quality |
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Data from: Fur seal microbiota are shaped by the social and physical environment, show mother-offspring similarities and are associated with host genetic quality |
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Data from: Fur seal microbiota are shaped by the social and physical environment, show mother-offspring similarities and are associated with host genetic quality |
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Data from: Fur seal microbiota are shaped by the social and physical environment, show mother-offspring similarities and are associated with host genetic quality |
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Data from: Fur seal microbiota are shaped by the social and physical environment, show mother-offspring similarities and are associated with host genetic quality |
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data from: fur seal microbiota are shaped by the social and physical environment, show mother-offspring similarities and are associated with host genetic quality |
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