Acta Veterinaria et Zootechnica Sinica ›› 2023, Vol. 54 ›› Issue (12): 5293-5300.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2023.12.037

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Differential Analysis and the Antibiotic Resistance Genes Prediction of Gut Microbiota in Pigeon

TAO Jie1,2,3, LI Benqiang1,2,3, CHENG Jinghua1,2,3, SHI Ying1,2,3, LIU Peihong1,2,3, LIU Huili1,2,3*   

  1. 1. Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine, Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai 201106, China;
    2. Shanghai Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genetic Breeding, Shanghai 201106, China;
    3. Key Laboratory for Disease Prevention and Control of Regional Characteristics Livestock and Poultry Breeds of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (Jointly Established by the Ministry and Province), Shanghai 201106, China
  • Received:2023-04-24 Online:2023-12-23 Published:2023-12-26

Abstract: In this study, metagenomics was used to explore the fecal microbiota differences between the young pigeons (RP) and older pigeons (LP). The results showed that Firmicutes, Proteobacteria and Actinobacteria were the dominant bacterias. The contents of Bifidobacterium, Corynebacteriun, Psychrobacter and Streptococcus in RP group were significantly higher than those in LP group, while the relative abundance of Staphyloccus, Brachybacterium, Kurthia and Escherichia in LP group were significantly higher than those in RP group. Further LEfSe analysis showed that the differentially expressed genes in the two groups were enriched in 5 KEGG pathways. Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) analyzation showed that a total of 198 ARG,were identified. And the prevalence rate of multi-drug ARGs was more than 40%, which indicated that the antibiotic resistance problem in pigeon is seriously. The current study provided scientific datas for further researches on gut microflora and healthy breeding, and mechanism of antibiotic resistance mechanism.

Key words: pigeon, metagenomics, gut microbiota, antibiotic resistance gene

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