Association between gut health and gut microbiota in a polluted environment

Animals host complex bacterial communities in their gastrointestinal tracts, with which they share a mutualistic interaction. The numerous effects these interactions grant to the host include regulation of the immune system, defense against pathogen invasion, aid in digestion of otherwise indigestible foodstuffs, and even changing host behaviour. Stress, such as environmental pollution, parasites, predators, and intraspecies competition, can alter the composition of the gut microbiome, which in turn can change host-microbiome interactions in ways that are detrimental to the host such as causing metabolic dysfunction and inflammation. While host-microbiome interactions have been extensively studied in humans and captive animals, studies into wild animal microbiomes have been scarce. We assessed the effects of disturbed environment on gut health of bank voles exposed to radionuclides in natural habitat using a combined approach of transcriptomics, microbial community analysis by 16S ampli..., , Table files can be opened using any tabular data processor.
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Animals host complex bacterial communities in their gastrointestinal tracts, with which they share a mutualistic interaction. The numerous effects these interactions grant to the host include regulation of the immune system, defense against pathogen invasion, aid in digestion of otherwise indigestible foodstuffs and even changing host behaviour. Stress, such as environmental pollution, parasites, predators and intraspecies competition, can alter the composition of the gut microbiome, which in turn can change host-microbiome interactions in ways that are detrimental to the host such as causing metabolic dysfunction and inflammation. While host-microbiome interactions have been extensively studied in humans and captive animals, studies into wild animal microbiomes have been scarce. We assessed effects of disturbed environment on gut health of bank voles exposed to radionuclides in ...