@misc{10481/53913,
year = {2018},
month = {2},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/53913},
abstract = {Bacterial communities within avian nests are considered an important determinant of egg viability, potentially selecting for
traits that confer embryos with protection against trans-shell infection. A high bacterial density on the eggshell increases
hatching failure, whether this effect could be due to changes in bacterial community or just a general increase in bacterial
density. We explored this idea using intra- and interspecific comparisons of the relationship between hatching success and
eggshell bacteria characterized by culture and molecular techniques (fingerprinting and high-throughput sequencing). We
collected information for 152 nests belonging to 17 bird species. Hatching failures occurred more frequently in nests with
higher density of aerobic mesophilic bacteria on their eggshells. Bacterial community was also related to hatching success, but only when minority bacterial operational taxonomic units were considered. These findings support the hypothesis that
bacterial density is a selective agent of embryo viability, and hence a proxy of hatching failure only within species.
Although different avian species hold different bacterial densities or assemblages on their eggs, the association between
bacteria and hatching success was similar for different species. This result suggests that interspecific differences in
antibacterial defenses are responsible for keeping the hatching success at similar levels in different species.},
organization = {Funding was provided by Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia and
European founds (FEDER) [CGL2007-61251, CGL2010-19233-C03-
01, CGL2010-19233-C03-03]. JMPS was funded by Ministerio de
Educación and Consejería de Innovación, Ciencia y Empresa
under International Excellence Campus Program, University of
Granada (CEI Granada 2009). RK was supported in part by the
Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The Earth Microbiome Project
was supported in part by the John Templeton Foundation and
the W.M. Keck Foundation.},
publisher = {Oxford University Press},
keywords = {ARISA},
keywords = {Avian community},
keywords = {Bacterial community},
keywords = {Bacterial density},
keywords = {Comparative analysis},
keywords = {Eggshells},
keywords = {Hatching success},
keywords = {High-throughput sequencing},
keywords = {Illumina HiSeq},
keywords = {Phylogenetic General Least Square},
title = {Bacterial density rather than diversity correlates with hatching success across different avian species},
doi = {10.1093/femsec/fiy022},
author = {Peralta-Sánchez, Juan Manuel and Martín Platero, Antonio Manuel and Wegener-Parfrey, Laura and Martínez Bueno, Manuel and Rodríguez Ruano, Sonia and Navas-Molina, José Antonio and Vázquez-Baeza, Yoshiki and Martín-Gálvez, David and Martín-Vivaldi Martínez, Manuel Lorenzo and Ibáñez Álamo, Juan Diego and Knight, Rob and Soler Cruz, Juan José},
}