Gut microbial community structure and function of Przewalski’s horses varied across reintroduced sites in China

作     者：Liping TANG Liping YAN Huiping JIA Yu XIONG Xinping MA Hongjun CHU Zhicheng SUN Liang WANG Mubalake SHALITANATI Kai LI Defu HU Dong ZHANG 

作者机构：School of Ecology and Nature ConservationBeijing Forestry UniversityBeijingChina Xinjiang Mountain Ungulate Nature Reserve Management CenterUrumqiChina Institute of Forestry EcologyXinjiang Academy of Forestry SciencesUrumqiChina Administrative Bureau of Dunhuang Xihu National Nature ReserveDunhuangChina Administration of Gansu Anxi Extra-arid Desert National Nature ReserveGuazhouChina School of Life SciencesLanzhou UniversityLanzhouChina Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Wild Horse Breeding Research CenterUrumqiChina 

出 版 物：《Integrative Zoology》 (整合动物学（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2023年第18卷第6期

页      面：1027-1040页

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学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 07[理学] 071002[理学-动物学] 

基　　金：We are grateful to rangers and staff members at the Xinjiang Kalamaili Nature Reserve,the Anxi Extremearid Desert Nature Reserve,and the Dunhuang Xihu National Nature Reserve for their support in sample collection.We would like to thank Editage(www.editage.cn)for English language editing.This work was supported by the Beijing Forestry University Outstanding Young Talent Cultivation Project[grant number 2019JQ03018] the Postdoctoral Innovative Talents Support Program[grant number BX20190042] the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation[grant number 2020M670177] L.T.acknowledges support from China Scholarship Council for her study at the University of Oxford(No.201906510039) 

主　　题：16s rRNA gene metagenome microbial variation reintroduction 

摘      要：Host-associated microbiota can significantly impact host ***,naturally occurring variations in microbiota may influence the health and persistence of their *** finding is particularly important in reintroduced animals,as they typically experience habitat changes during ***,little is known about how microbiomes are altered in response to conservation ***,we accessed the gut microbiome of Przewalski’s horse(Equus przewalskii)populations in China from three nature reserves(*** Kalamaili Nature Reserve,KNR;Dunhuang Xihu National Nature Reserve,DXNNR;and Anxi Extreme-arid Desert Nature Reserve,AENR)using 16s rRNA gene and metagenome *** results showed that the microbial composition and function differed significantly across locations,while a subset of core taxa was consistently present in most of the *** abundance of genes encoding microbe-produced enzymes involved in the metabolism of carbohydrates,especially for glycoside hydrolases,was significantly higher in open-spaced KNR populations than in more confined AENR *** study offers detailed and significant differential characters related to the microbial community and metabolic pathways in various reintroduced sites of Przewalski’s horse,which might provide a basis for future microecological and conservation research on endangered reintroduced animals.