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@article{West:2022:10.1186/s42523-022-00204-w,
author = {West, AG and Digby, A and Lear, G and Kkp, Recovery Team and Kkp, Aspergillosis Research Consortium and Taylor, MW},
doi = {10.1186/s42523-022-00204-w},
journal = {Animal Microbiome},
pages = {1--15},
title = {Influence of management practice on the microbiota of a critically endangered species: a longitudinal study of kkp chick faeces and associated nest litter},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s42523-022-00204-w},
volume = {4},
year = {2022}
}
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TY - JOUR
AB - BACKGROUND: The critically endangered kkp is a flightless, nocturnal parrot endemic to Aotearoa New Zealand. Recent efforts to describe the gastrointestinal microbial community of this threatened herbivore revealed a low-diversity microbiota that is often dominated by Escherichia-Shigella bacteria. Given the importance of associated microbial communities to animal health, and increasing appreciation of their potential relevance to threatened species conservation, we sought to better understand the development of this unusual gut microbiota profile. To this end, we conducted a longitudinal analysis of faecal material collected from kkp chicks during the 2019 breeding season, in addition to associated nest litter material. RESULTS: Using an experimental approach rarely seen in studies of threatened species microbiota, we evaluated the impact of a regular conservation practice on the developing kkp microbiota, namely the removal of faecal material from nests. Artificially removing chick faeces from nests had negligible impact on bacterial community diversity for either chicks or nests (p > 0.05). However, the gut microbiota did change significantly over time as chick age increased (p < 0.01), with an increasing relative abundance of Escherichia-Shigella coli over the study period and similar observations for the associated nest litter microbiota (p < 0.01). Supplementary feeding substantially altered gut bacterial diversity of kkp chicks (p < 0.01), characterised by a significant increase in Lactobacillus bacteria. CONCLUSIONS: Overall, chick age and hand rearing conditions had the most marked impact on faecal bacterial communities. Similarly, the surrounding nest litter microbiota changed significantly over time since a kkp chick was first placed in the nest, though we found no evidence that removal of faecal material influenced the bacterial communities of either litter or faecal sampl
AU - West,AG
AU - Digby,A
AU - Lear,G
AU - Kkp,Recovery Team
AU - Kkp,Aspergillosis Research Consortium
AU - Taylor,MW
DO - 10.1186/s42523-022-00204-w
EP - 15
PY - 2022///
SN - 2524-4671
SP - 1
TI - Influence of management practice on the microbiota of a critically endangered species: a longitudinal study of kkp chick faeces and associated nest litter
T2 - Animal Microbiome
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s42523-022-00204-w
UR - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36175950
UR - https://animalmicrobiome.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s42523-022-00204-w
VL - 4
ER -