文献类型： 外文期刊

作者： Li, Cunyuan ¹ ; Li, Xiaoyue ¹ ; Guo, Rongjun ⁴ ; Ni, Wei ¹ ; Liu, Kaiping ¹ ; Liu, Zhuang ¹ ; Dai, Jihong ¹ ; Xu, Yueren ¹ ; Abduriyim, Shamshidin ¹ ; Wu, Zhuangyuan ⁶ ; Zeng, Yaqi ⁷ ; Lei, Bingbing ¹ ; Zhang, Yunfeng ⁵ ; Wang, Yue ¹ ; Zeng, Weibin ³ ; Zhang, Qiang ³ ; Chen, Chuangfu ³ ; Qiao, Jun ³ ; Liu, Chen ⁴ ; Hu, Shengwei ¹ ;

作者机构： 1.Shihezi Univ, Coll Life Sci, Shihezi 832003, Xinjiang, Peoples R China

2.Shihezi Univ, Key Lab Ecol Corps Oasis City & Mt Basin Syst, Shihezi 832003, Xinjiang, Peoples R China

3.Shihezi Univ, Coll Anim Sci & Technol, Shihezi 832003, Xinjiang, Peoples R China

4.Novogene Bioinformat Inst, Beijing 100000, Peoples R China

5.Xinjiang Acad Agr & Reclamat Sci, State Key Lab Sheep Genet Improvement & Hlth Prod, Shihezi 830003, Xinjiang, Peoples R China

6.Xinjiang Altay Anim Husb & Vet Stn, Altay 836501, Xinjiang, Peoples R China

7.Xinjiang Agr Univ, Coll Anim Sci, Urumqi 830000, Xinjiang, Peoples R China

关键词： Athletic performance; Antimicrobial resistance gene; Gut; Horse; Metagenome-assembled genome; Nanopore sequencing

期刊名称：MICROBIOME （ 影响因子：15.5； 五年影响因子：19.4 ）

ISSN： 2049-2618

年卷期： 2023 年 11 卷 1 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Background As a domesticated species vital to humans, horses are raised worldwide as a source of mechanical energy for sports, leisure, food production, and transportation. The gut microbiota plays an important role in the health, diseases, athletic performance, and behaviour of horses.Results Here, using approximately 2.2 Tb of metagenomic sequencing data from gut samples from 242 horses, including 110 samples from the caecum and 132 samples from the rectum (faeces), we assembled 4142 microbial metagenome-assembled genomes (MAG), 4015 (96.93%) of which appear to correspond to new species. From long-read data, we successfully assembled 13 circular whole-chromosome bacterial genomes representing novel species. The MAG contained over 313,568 predicted carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZy), over 59.77% of which had low similarity match in CAZy public databases. High abundance and diversity of antibiotic resistance genes (ARG) were identified in the MAG, likely showing the wide use of antibiotics in the management of horse. The abundances of at least 36 MAG (e.g. MAG belonging to Lachnospiraceae, Oscillospiraceae, and Ruminococcus) were higher in racehorses than in nonracehorses. These MAG enriched in racehorses contained every gene in a major pathway for producing acetate and butyrate by fibre fermentation, presenting potential for greater amount of short-chain fatty acids available to fuel athletic performance.Conclusion Overall, we assembled 4142 MAG from short- and long-read sequence data in the horse gut. Our dataset represents an exhaustive microbial genome catalogue for the horse gut microbiome and provides a valuable resource for discovery of performance-enhancing microbes and studies of horse gut microbiome.