A common vaginal microbiota composition among breeds of Bos taurus indicus (Gyr and Nellore)

Describing the bovine vaginal microbiota is essential to better understand its physiology and its impact on health maintenance. Despite the economic importance of reproduction of these animals, bovine vaginal microbial community is still poorly described in comparison with rumen microbiome. Previous studies of our group described the vaginal microbiota of Nellore, an important Bos taurus indicus breed, using metagenomics. In order to better understand this microbiota, the present work aims to investigate another important breed, Gyr. Results have shown bacterial dominance over Archaea and Fungi was observed, with the most abundant bacterial phylum (Firmicutes) representing 40-50% of bacterial population, followed by Bacteroidetes, Proteobacteria, and Actinobacteria. The Fungi kingdom had the Mycosphaerella genus as its main representative, followed by Cladosporium. Archaea were observed at a very low abundance in all animals, with a high relative abundance of Methanobrevibacter genus. These results demonstrate a high microbial diversity on vaginal tract of Gyr, as demonstrated for Nellore and different from the previously described for other species. Our results indicate a great similarity between vaginal microbiota of Nellore and Gyr despite the differences in animal handling and genetic improvement. As observed for both breeds, individual variation is the largest source of microbial diversity between animals.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:50

Enthalten in:

Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology - 50(2019), 4 vom: 29. Okt., Seite 1115-1124

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Giannattasio-Ferraz, Silvia [VerfasserIn]
Laguardia-Nascimento, Mateus [VerfasserIn]
Gasparini, Marcela Ribeiro [VerfasserIn]
Leite, Laura Rabelo [VerfasserIn]
Araujo, Flávio Marcos Gomes [VerfasserIn]
de Matos Salim, Anna Christina [VerfasserIn]
de Oliveira, André Penido [VerfasserIn]
Nicoli, Jacques Robert [VerfasserIn]
de Oliveira, Guilherme Corrêa [VerfasserIn]
da Fonseca, Flavio Guimarães [VerfasserIn]
Barbosa-Stancioli, Edel Figueiredo [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Bovine
Gyr
Journal Article
Metagenomics
Microbiota
Vaginal tract

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Date Completed 07.02.2020

Date Revised 29.08.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s42770-019-00120-3

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM300777353