Humanization of wildlife gut microbiota in urban environments
Urbanization is rapidly altering Earth’s environments, demanding investigation of the impacts on resident wildlife. Here, we show that urban populations of coyotes (Canis latrans), crested anole lizards (Anolis cristatellus), and white-crowned sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys) acquire gut microbiota...
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| author | Brian A Dillard Albert K Chung Alex R Gunderson Shane C Campbell-Staton Andrew H Moeller |
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| description | Urbanization is rapidly altering Earth’s environments, demanding investigation of the impacts on resident wildlife. Here, we show that urban populations of coyotes (Canis latrans), crested anole lizards (Anolis cristatellus), and white-crowned sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys) acquire gut microbiota constituents found in humans, including gut bacterial lineages associated with urbanization in humans. Comparisons of urban and rural wildlife and human populations revealed significant convergence of gut microbiota among urban populations relative to rural populations. All bacterial lineages overrepresented in urban wildlife relative to rural wildlife and differentially abundant between urban and rural humans were also overrepresented in urban humans relative to rural humans. Remarkably, the bacterial lineage most overrepresented in urban anoles was a Bacteroides sequence variant that was also the most significantly overrepresented in urban human populations. These results indicate parallel effects of urbanization on human and wildlife gut microbiota and suggest spillover of bacteria from humans into wildlife in cities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7a373dfe9eb84ade955054d45a3a24122022-12-22T03:24:53ZengeLife Sciences Publications LtdeLife2050-084X2022-05-011110.7554/eLife.76381Humanization of wildlife gut microbiota in urban environmentsBrian A Dillard0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1845-2980Albert K Chung1Alex R Gunderson2Shane C Campbell-Staton3Andrew H Moeller4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8377-4647Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, United StatesPrinceton University, Princeton, NJ, United StatesTulane University, Tulane, United StatesPrinceton University, Princeton, NJ, United StatesDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, United StatesUrbanization is rapidly altering Earth’s environments, demanding investigation of the impacts on resident wildlife. Here, we show that urban populations of coyotes (Canis latrans), crested anole lizards (Anolis cristatellus), and white-crowned sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys) acquire gut microbiota constituents found in humans, including gut bacterial lineages associated with urbanization in humans. Comparisons of urban and rural wildlife and human populations revealed significant convergence of gut microbiota among urban populations relative to rural populations. All bacterial lineages overrepresented in urban wildlife relative to rural wildlife and differentially abundant between urban and rural humans were also overrepresented in urban humans relative to rural humans. Remarkably, the bacterial lineage most overrepresented in urban anoles was a Bacteroides sequence variant that was also the most significantly overrepresented in urban human populations. These results indicate parallel effects of urbanization on human and wildlife gut microbiota and suggest spillover of bacteria from humans into wildlife in cities.https://elifesciences.org/articles/76381metagenometransmissionbacteriaarchaeaanoliscanis |
| spellingShingle | Brian A Dillard Albert K Chung Alex R Gunderson Shane C Campbell-Staton Andrew H Moeller Humanization of wildlife gut microbiota in urban environments eLife metagenome transmission bacteria archaea anolis canis |
| title | Humanization of wildlife gut microbiota in urban environments |
| title_full | Humanization of wildlife gut microbiota in urban environments |
| title_fullStr | Humanization of wildlife gut microbiota in urban environments |
| title_full_unstemmed | Humanization of wildlife gut microbiota in urban environments |
| title_short | Humanization of wildlife gut microbiota in urban environments |
| title_sort | humanization of wildlife gut microbiota in urban environments |
| topic | metagenome transmission bacteria archaea anolis canis |
| url | https://elifesciences.org/articles/76381 |
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