A Comparative Study on the Faecal Bacterial Community and Potential Zoonotic Bacteria of Muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) in Northeast Greenland, Northwest Greenland and Norway
Muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) are ruminants adapted to a high-fibre diet. There is increasing interest in the role that gut microbes play in the digestion and utilization of these specialized diets but only limited data available on the gut microbiome of high-Arctic animals. In this study, we metabarc...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:6164070 2023-05-15T15:06:21+02:00 A Comparative Study on the Faecal Bacterial Community and Potential Zoonotic Bacteria of Muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) in Northeast Greenland, Northwest Greenland and Norway Andersen-Ranberg, Emilie U. Barnes, Christopher J. Rasmussen, Linett Salgado-Flores, Alejandro Grøndahl, Carsten Mosbacher, Jesper B. Hansen, Anders J. Sundset, Monica Alterskjær Schmidt, Niels Martin Sonne, Christian 2018-07-25 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6164070/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30044373 https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms6030076 en eng MDPI http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6164070/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30044373 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms6030076 © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). CC-BY Article Text 2018 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms6030076 2018-10-14T00:27:57Z Muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) are ruminants adapted to a high-fibre diet. There is increasing interest in the role that gut microbes play in the digestion and utilization of these specialized diets but only limited data available on the gut microbiome of high-Arctic animals. In this study, we metabarcoded the 16S rRNA region of faecal samples from muskoxen of Northeast Greenland, Northwest Greenland and Norway, and quantified the effects of physiological and temporal factors on bacterial composition. We found significant effects of body mass, year of sampling and location on the gut bacterial communities of North East Greenland muskoxen. These effects were however dwarfed by the effects of location, emphasizing the importance of the local ecology on the gut bacterial community. Habitat alterations and rising temperatures may therefore have a considerable impact on muskoxen health and reproductive success. Moreover, muskoxen are hunted and consumed in Greenland, Canada and Alaska; therefore, this study also screened for potential zoonoses of food safety interest. A total of 13 potentially zoonotic genera were identified, including the genera Erysipelothrix and Yersinia implicated in recent mass die-offs of the muskoxen themselves. Text Arctic East Greenland Greenland ovibos moschatus Alaska PubMed Central (PMC) Arctic Canada Greenland Norway Microorganisms 6 3 76 |
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Muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) are ruminants adapted to a high-fibre diet. There is increasing interest in the role that gut microbes play in the digestion and utilization of these specialized diets but only limited data available on the gut microbiome of high-Arctic animals. In this study, we metabarcoded the 16S rRNA region of faecal samples from muskoxen of Northeast Greenland, Northwest Greenland and Norway, and quantified the effects of physiological and temporal factors on bacterial composition. We found significant effects of body mass, year of sampling and location on the gut bacterial communities of North East Greenland muskoxen. These effects were however dwarfed by the effects of location, emphasizing the importance of the local ecology on the gut bacterial community. Habitat alterations and rising temperatures may therefore have a considerable impact on muskoxen health and reproductive success. Moreover, muskoxen are hunted and consumed in Greenland, Canada and Alaska; therefore, this study also screened for potential zoonoses of food safety interest. A total of 13 potentially zoonotic genera were identified, including the genera Erysipelothrix and Yersinia implicated in recent mass die-offs of the muskoxen themselves. |
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Andersen-Ranberg, Emilie U. Barnes, Christopher J. Rasmussen, Linett Salgado-Flores, Alejandro Grøndahl, Carsten Mosbacher, Jesper B. Hansen, Anders J. Sundset, Monica Alterskjær Schmidt, Niels Martin Sonne, Christian |
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Andersen-Ranberg, Emilie U. Barnes, Christopher J. Rasmussen, Linett Salgado-Flores, Alejandro Grøndahl, Carsten Mosbacher, Jesper B. Hansen, Anders J. Sundset, Monica Alterskjær Schmidt, Niels Martin Sonne, Christian |
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A Comparative Study on the Faecal Bacterial Community and Potential Zoonotic Bacteria of Muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) in Northeast Greenland, Northwest Greenland and Norway |
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A Comparative Study on the Faecal Bacterial Community and Potential Zoonotic Bacteria of Muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) in Northeast Greenland, Northwest Greenland and Norway |
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A Comparative Study on the Faecal Bacterial Community and Potential Zoonotic Bacteria of Muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) in Northeast Greenland, Northwest Greenland and Norway |
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A Comparative Study on the Faecal Bacterial Community and Potential Zoonotic Bacteria of Muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) in Northeast Greenland, Northwest Greenland and Norway |
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A Comparative Study on the Faecal Bacterial Community and Potential Zoonotic Bacteria of Muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) in Northeast Greenland, Northwest Greenland and Norway |
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comparative study on the faecal bacterial community and potential zoonotic bacteria of muskoxen (ovibos moschatus) in northeast greenland, northwest greenland and norway |
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