The Microbial Community in the Feces of Cape Oryx (Oryx Gazella) as Determined by High- Throughput Illumina Sequencing Technology. | [Pakistan Journal of Zoology • 2018]

Author(s):

1. Jun Chen: College of Life Science, Qufu Normal University, Jingxuan West Street No. 57, Qufu 273165, Shandong, P.R. China

2. Shuai Shang: College of Life Science, Qufu Normal University, Jingxuan West Street No. 57, Qufu 273165, Shandong, P.R. China

3. Xiaoyang Wu: College of Life Science, Qufu Normal University, Jingxuan West Street No. 57, Qufu 273165, Shandong, P.R. China

4. Jiakuo Yan: College of Life Science, Qufu Normal University, Jingxuan West Street No. 57, Qufu 273165, Shandong, P.R. China

5. Huaming Zhong: College of Life Science, Qufu Normal University, Jingxuan West Street No. 57, Qufu 273165, Shandong, P.R. China

6. Huanxin Zhang: College of Life Science, Qufu Normal University, Jingxuan West Street No. 57, Qufu 273165, Shandong, P.R. China

7. Weilai Sha: College of Life Science, Qufu Normal University, Jingxuan West Street No. 57, Qufu 273165, Shandong, P.R. China

8. Wanchao Zhu: College of Life Science, Qufu Normal University, Jingxuan West Street No. 57, Qufu 273165, Shandong, P.R. China

9. Honghai Zhang: College of Life Science, Qufu Normal University, Jingxuan West Street No. 57, Qufu 273165, Shandong, P.R. China

Abstract:

As a ruminant herbivore, the cape oryx from southern Africa has a digestive system that allows it to absorb and digest large amounts of plant material through microbial fermentation in the hindgut. So far, there has been no study of the gut microbiota of the cape oryx. Here, we provided the first description of the fecal bacterial populations of the cape oryx by using high-throughput Illumina sequencing technology. We analyzed 100,180 high-quality sequences of the 16S rRNA gene obtained from fecal samples from three cape oryx animals, one female and two males. At the 3% level in our research, we found 3959, 4553, and 3930 operational taxonomical units (OTUs). Additionally, the three samples have 754 OTUs in common, which comprised 19.59%, 16.55%, and 19.81% of the reads in C1, C2 and C3. We identified 18 prokaryotic phyla in these animals, but most of the gut flora belonged to three phyla: Firmicutes (42.81-55.29%), Bacteroidetes (21.26-27.82%), Proteobacteria (3.05%-7.14%), represented by Ruminococcaceae, Lachnospiraceae, Prevotellaceae, Porphyromonadaceae, Succinivibrionacea and Rikenellaceae families. The present work offers an initial phylogenetic baseline for further research on the intestinal ecosystem of these African animals. This work is of great significance for disease monitoring and protection of these animals.

Page(s): 1601-1610

DOI: 10.17582/journal.pjz/2018.50.5.1601.1610

Published: Journal: Pakistan Journal of Zoology, Volume: 50, Issue: 5, Year: 2018

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