Acta Veterinaria et Zootechnica Sinica ›› 2020, Vol. 51 ›› Issue (9): 2147-2155.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2020.09.012

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Study on the Cecal Microbial Community Structure and Diversity of Tibetan Pigs in Tibetan Plateau

TAN Zhankun1,2,3, SHANG Zhenda2,3, LIU Suozhu2,3*, SHANG Peng2, QIANGBA Yangzong1,2*   

  1. 1. Research Institute of Tibet Plateau Ecology, Tibet Agricultural and Animal Husbandry University, Linzhi 860000, China;
    2. College of Animal Science, Tibet Agricultural and Animal Husbandry University, Linzhi 860000, China;
    3. Tibetan Plateau Feed Processing Engineering Research Center, Linzhi 860000, China
  • Received:2020-01-09 Online:2020-09-25 Published:2020-09-25

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to investigate the cecal microbial community composition and diversity of grazing Tibetan pigs, captive Tibetan pigs and lean type pigs (DLY pigs) in Tibetan plateau, in order to partially revealed the specificity of the intestinal microbial community of Tibetan pigs. Pigs with the same age were chosen, including 5 grazing Tibetan pigs, 5 captive Tibetan pigs and 5 DLY pigs. The grazing Tibetan pigs were free range husbandry by local herdsman. The captive Tibetan pigs and DLY pigs were reared in pens and fed with same diets. At the age of 160 days, all the pigs were slaughtered by anterior vena cava bloodletting. Cecal chyme was collected and rapidly frozen with liquid nitrogen. The V3-V4 regions of the 16S rRNA genes were amplified and sequenced using high-throughput sequencing techniques. The results showed that a total of 659 904 valid sequences were obtained from the V3-V4 region of 16S rRNA in 15 samples, including grazing Tibetan pigs 213 031, captive Tibetan pigs 219 417 and DLY pigs 227 456. Interestingly, the cecal OTUs quatity, Chao1 index, ACE index and Shannon index of the grazing Tibetan pigs were significantly higher than those of the other pigs (P<0.05), but there was no significant difference between the captive Tibetan pigs and DLY pigs (P>0.05). The microbiota of 3 types of pigs were divided into 13 phyla and 56 genera, and Firmicutes has the highest relative abundance in all pigs. The relative abundance of Actinobacteria and Verrucomicrobia were significantly higher in grazing Tibetan pigs than those of the others (P<0.05), but Bacteroidetes was remarkably higher in captive Tibetan pigs (P<0.05). The relative abundance of 11 genera in grazing Tibetan pigs was significantly higher than captive Tibetan pigs and DLY pigs (P<0.05). These results indicated that the cecal microbial community structure and diversity of grazing Tibetan pigs were unique, which could provide reference for further developing the Tibetan pig resources.

Key words: grazing Tibetan pigs, captive Tibetan pigs, DLY pigs, cecal microbiota

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