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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Comparison of fecal and cecal microbiotas reveals qualitative similarities but quantitative differences |
Author: | Stanley, D. Geier, M. Chen, H. Hughes, R. Moore, R. |
Citation: | BMC Microbiology, 2015; 15(1):51-1-51-11 |
Publisher: | BioMed Central |
Issue Date: | 2015 |
ISSN: | 1471-2180 1471-2180 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Dragana Stanley, Mark S Geier, Honglei Chen, Robert J Hughes and Robert J Moore |
Abstract: | BACKGROUND: The majority of chicken microbiota studies have used the ceca as a sampling site due to the specific role of ceca in chicken productivity, health and wellbeing. However, sampling from ceca and other gastrointestinal tract sections requires the bird to be sacrificed. In contrast, fecal sampling does not require sacrifice and thus allows the same bird to be sampled repeatedly over time. This is a more meaningful and preferred way of sampling as the same animals can be monitored and tracked for temporal studies. The commonly used practice of selecting a subset of birds at each time-point for sacrifice and sampling introduces added variability due to the known animal to animal variation in microbiota. RESULTS: Cecal samples and fecal samples via cloacal swab were collected from 163 birds across 3 replicate trials. DNA was extracted and 16S rRNA gene sequences amplified and pyrosequenced to determine and compare the phylogenetic profile of the microbiota within each sample. The fecal and cecal samples were investigated to determine to what extent the microbiota found in fecal samples represented the microbiota of the ceca. It was found that 88.55% of all operational taxonomic units (OTUs), containing 99.25% of all sequences, were shared between the two sample types, with OTUs unique for each sample type found to be very rare. There was a positive correlation between cecal and fecal abundance in the shared sequences, however the two communities differed significantly in community structure, represented as either alpha or beta diversity. The microbial populations present within the paired ceca of individual birds were also compared and shown to be similar. CONCLUSIONS: Fecal sample analysis captures a large percentage of the microbial diversity present in the ceca. However, the qualitative similarities in OTU presence are not a good representation of the proportions of OTUs within the microbiota from each sampling site. The fecal microbiota is qualitatively similar to cecal microbiota but quantitatively different. Fecal samples can be effectively used to detect some shifts and responses of cecal microbiota. |
Keywords: | Cecum Feces Animals Chickens DNA, Ribosomal RNA, Ribosomal, 16S Cluster Analysis Sequence Analysis, DNA Phylogeny Molecular Sequence Data Gastrointestinal Microbiome |
Rights: | © 2015 Stanley et al.; licensee BioMed Central. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
DOI: | 10.1186/s12866-015-0388-6 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12866-015-0388-6 |
Appears in Collections: | Animal and Veterinary Sciences publications Aurora harvest 7 |
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