Links between bacteria derived from penguin guts and deposited guano and the surrounding soil microbiota
Penguins are an important indicator of marine ecosystem health and a major contributor of nutrients to terrestrial ecosystems in Antarctica. Their stomach microbiota is influenced by both the prey consumed and their foraging environment in the sea. As penguins feed at sea and breed on land, they mig...
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ftunivnorthumb:oai:nrl.northumbria.ac.uk:31635 2023-05-15T13:56:54+02:00 Links between bacteria derived from penguin guts and deposited guano and the surrounding soil microbiota Yew, Wen Chyin Pearce, David Dunn, Michael James Adlard, Stacey Alias, Siti Aisyah Samah, Azizan Abu Convey, Peter 2018-02-01 text https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/31635/ https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-017-2189-x https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/31635/1/Manuscript%202.pdf en eng Springer https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/31635/1/Manuscript%202.pdf Yew, Wen Chyin, Pearce, David, Dunn, Michael James, Adlard, Stacey, Alias, Siti Aisyah, Samah, Azizan Abu and Convey, Peter (2018) Links between bacteria derived from penguin guts and deposited guano and the surrounding soil microbiota. Polar Biology, 41 (2). pp. 269-281. ISSN 0722-4060 C500 Microbiology C900 Others in Biological Sciences Article PeerReviewed 2018 ftunivnorthumb https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-017-2189-x 2022-09-25T06:06:00Z Penguins are an important indicator of marine ecosystem health and a major contributor of nutrients to terrestrial ecosystems in Antarctica. Their stomach microbiota is influenced by both the prey consumed and their foraging environment in the sea. As penguins feed at sea and breed on land, they might be expected to transfer microbes (e.g. prey-associated and marine bacteria) as well as nutrients from their stomachs while regurgitating food or in their guano to the surrounding terrestrial environment. However, most research attention to date has focused separately on the penguin gut microbiota (via cloacal/guano samples) and the terrestrial soil microbiota, and any relationship between them has yet to be established. Here, we analysed the bacterial communities in stomach regurgitates and cloacal swabs from the same individual birds, freshly deposited guano and rookery soils of two Pygoscelis penguins that breed sympatrically on Signy Island (South Orkney Islands, maritime Antarctic) using a high-throughput DNA sequencing method. Our data do not support the hypothesis that bacteria transferred from penguin guts and/or deposited guano make a significant contribution to the communities of the surrounding terrestrial microbial ecosystem. In both penguin species, composition of bacterial communities differed between the four sample types, with Jaccard similarities ranging between 10 and 36%. Assemblages of the dominant and co-occurring bacterial communities in rookery soils were either significantly negatively correlated or not correlated with the three other sample types. Sample-specific communities were also identified in this study, contributing around 63% of the identified diversity overall. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Polar Biology Signy Island South Orkney Islands Northumbria University, Newcastle: Northumbria Research Link (NRL) Antarctic Guano ENVELOPE(141.604,141.604,-66.775,-66.775) Signy Island ENVELOPE(-45.595,-45.595,-60.708,-60.708) South Orkney Islands ENVELOPE(-45.500,-45.500,-60.583,-60.583) Polar Biology 41 2 269 281 |
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Penguins are an important indicator of marine ecosystem health and a major contributor of nutrients to terrestrial ecosystems in Antarctica. Their stomach microbiota is influenced by both the prey consumed and their foraging environment in the sea. As penguins feed at sea and breed on land, they might be expected to transfer microbes (e.g. prey-associated and marine bacteria) as well as nutrients from their stomachs while regurgitating food or in their guano to the surrounding terrestrial environment. However, most research attention to date has focused separately on the penguin gut microbiota (via cloacal/guano samples) and the terrestrial soil microbiota, and any relationship between them has yet to be established. Here, we analysed the bacterial communities in stomach regurgitates and cloacal swabs from the same individual birds, freshly deposited guano and rookery soils of two Pygoscelis penguins that breed sympatrically on Signy Island (South Orkney Islands, maritime Antarctic) using a high-throughput DNA sequencing method. Our data do not support the hypothesis that bacteria transferred from penguin guts and/or deposited guano make a significant contribution to the communities of the surrounding terrestrial microbial ecosystem. In both penguin species, composition of bacterial communities differed between the four sample types, with Jaccard similarities ranging between 10 and 36%. Assemblages of the dominant and co-occurring bacterial communities in rookery soils were either significantly negatively correlated or not correlated with the three other sample types. Sample-specific communities were also identified in this study, contributing around 63% of the identified diversity overall. |
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Yew, Wen Chyin Pearce, David Dunn, Michael James Adlard, Stacey Alias, Siti Aisyah Samah, Azizan Abu Convey, Peter |
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Yew, Wen Chyin Pearce, David Dunn, Michael James Adlard, Stacey Alias, Siti Aisyah Samah, Azizan Abu Convey, Peter |
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Links between bacteria derived from penguin guts and deposited guano and the surrounding soil microbiota |
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Links between bacteria derived from penguin guts and deposited guano and the surrounding soil microbiota |
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Links between bacteria derived from penguin guts and deposited guano and the surrounding soil microbiota |
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Links between bacteria derived from penguin guts and deposited guano and the surrounding soil microbiota |
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Links between bacteria derived from penguin guts and deposited guano and the surrounding soil microbiota |
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links between bacteria derived from penguin guts and deposited guano and the surrounding soil microbiota |
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https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/31635/1/Manuscript%202.pdf Yew, Wen Chyin, Pearce, David, Dunn, Michael James, Adlard, Stacey, Alias, Siti Aisyah, Samah, Azizan Abu and Convey, Peter (2018) Links between bacteria derived from penguin guts and deposited guano and the surrounding soil microbiota. Polar Biology, 41 (2). pp. 269-281. ISSN 0722-4060 |
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