@misc{10481/55398,
year = {2018},
month = {7},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/55398},
abstract = {Diet and host genetic or evolutionary history are considered the two main factors
determining gut microbiota of animals, although studies are scarce in natural populations. The system
of great spotted cuckoos (Clamator glandarius) parasitizing magpies (Pica pica) is ideal to study both
effects since magpie adults feed cuckoo and magpie nestlings with the same diet and, consequently,
differences in gut microbiota of nestlings of these two species will mainly reflect the importance of
genetic components. Moreover, the diet of adults and of nestling cuckoos drastically differ from each
other and, thus, differences and similarities in their microbiotas would respectively reflect the effect
of environmental and genetic factors. We used next-generation sequencing technologies to analyze
the gut microbiota of cuckoo adults and nestlings and of magpie nestlings. The highest  -diversity
estimates appeared in nestling cuckoos and the lowest in nestling magpies. Moreover, despite the
greatest differences in the microbiome composition of magpies and cuckoos of both ages, cuckoo
nestlings harbored a mixture of the Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs) present in adult cuckoos
and nestling magpies. We identified the bacterial taxa responsible for such results. These results
suggest important phylogenetic components determining gut microbiome of nestlings, and that diet
might be responsible for similarities between gut microbiome of cuckoo and magpie nestlings that
allow cuckoos to digest food provided by magpie adults.},
organization = {This work was supported by the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades and European
(FEDER) funds (CGL2017-83103-P).},
publisher = {MDPI},
keywords = {Brood parasitism},
keywords = {Cloaca microbiota},
keywords = {Host diet and gut microbiome},
keywords = {Host genetic and gut microbiota},
title = {Gut Microbiota of Great Spotted Cuckoo Nestlings is a Mixture of Those of Their Foster Magpie Siblings and of Cuckoo Adults},
author = {Ruiz-Rodríguez, Magdalena and Martín-Vivaldi Martínez, Manuel Lorenzo and Martínez Bueno, Manuel and Soler Cruz, Juan José},
}