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ABSTRACT: Background
Goat is an important livestock worldwide, which plays an indispensable role in human life by providing meat, milk, fiber, and pelts. Despite recent significant advances in microbiome studies, a comprehensive survey on the goat microbiomes covering gastrointestinal tract (GIT) sites, developmental stages, feeding styles, and geographical factors is still unavailable. Here, we surveyed its multi-kingdom microbial communities using 497 samples from ten sites along the goat GIT.Results
We reconstructed a goat multi-kingdom microbiome catalog (GMMC) including 4004 bacterial, 71 archaeal, and 7204 viral genomes and annotated over 4,817,256 non-redundant protein-coding genes. We revealed patterns of feeding-driven microbial community dynamics along the goat GIT sites which were likely associated with gastrointestinal food digestion and absorption capabilities and disease risks, and identified an abundance of large intestine-enriched genera involved in plant fiber digestion. We quantified the effects of various factors affecting the distribution and abundance of methane-producing microbes including the GIT site, age, feeding style, and geography, and identified 68 virulent viruses targeting the methane producers via a comprehensive virus-bacterium/archaea interaction network.Conclusions
Together, our GMMC catalog provides functional insights of the goat GIT microbiota through microbiome-host interactions and paves the way to microbial interventions for better goat and eco-environmental qualities. Video Abstract.
SUBMITTER: Cao Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10544373 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cao Yanhong Y Feng Tong T Wu Yingjian Y Xu Yixue Y Du Li L Wang Teng T Luo Yuhong Y Wang Yan Y Li Zhipeng Z Xuan Zeyi Z Chen Shaomei S Yao Na N Gao Na L NL Xiao Qian Q Huang Kongwei K Wang Xiaobo X Cui Kuiqing K Rehman Saif Ur SU Tang Xiangfang X Liu Dewu D Han Hongbing H Li Ying Y Chen Wei-Hua WH Liu Qingyou Q
Microbiome 20231002 1
<h4>Background</h4>Goat is an important livestock worldwide, which plays an indispensable role in human life by providing meat, milk, fiber, and pelts. Despite recent significant advances in microbiome studies, a comprehensive survey on the goat microbiomes covering gastrointestinal tract (GIT) sites, developmental stages, feeding styles, and geographical factors is still unavailable. Here, we surveyed its multi-kingdom microbial communities using 497 samples from ten sites along the goat GIT.<h ...[more]