Comparing the Microbial Community in Four Stomach of Dairy Cattle, Yellow Cattle and Three Yak Herds in Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Yak ( ) is an unique ruminant species in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP). The ruminant gastrointestinal tract (GIT) microbiota is not only associated with the nutrients metabolism, but also contributes to the host's local adaptation. Examining the microbiota between cattle and yak in differen...

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Published in:Frontiers in microbiology 2019-07, Vol.10, p.1547-1547
Main Authors: Xin, Jinwei, Chai, Zhixin, Zhang, Chengfu, Zhang, Qiang, Zhu, Yong, Cao, Hanwen, Zhong, Jincheng, Ji, Qiumei
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
foregut
geography
host genetics
Microbiology
Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
yak
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Summary:Yak ( ) is an unique ruminant species in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP). The ruminant gastrointestinal tract (GIT) microbiota is not only associated with the nutrients metabolism, but also contributes to the host's local adaptation. Examining the microbiota between cattle and yak in different geography could improve our understanding about the role of microbiota in metabolism and adaptation. To this end, we compared the microbiota in rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum of dairy cattle, yellow cattle, and three yak herds (WQ yak, SZ yak, and ZB yak) lived in different altitude, based on sequencing the bacterial 16S rRNA gene on Illumina Miseq. The bacterial diversity was significantly different among five breeds, whereas the difference among four stomach regions is limited. The phyla and were the dominated bacteria regardless of breeds and regions. The nonmetric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) results showed that the microbiota in dairy cattle, yellow cattle and WQ yak significantly differed from that in SZ yak and ZB yak for all four stomach compartments. Canonical correlation analysis revealed that and spp. were abundant in dairy cattle, yellow cattle and WQ yak, whereas the R7 group and the UCG 008 group were prevalent in SZ yak and ZB yak. Moreover, the microbiota in WQ yak was significantly different from that in SZ yak and ZB yak, which were characterized by the higher relative abundance spp., , spp., spp., and RC9 group. Overall, these results improves our knowledge about the GIT microbiota composition of QTP ruminant.
ISSN:1664-302X
1664-302X
DOI:10.3389/fmicb.2019.01547