AUTHOR=Dong Shixiong , Xu Shijun , Zhang Jian , Hussain Riaz , Lu Hong , Ye Yourong , Mehmood Khalid , Zhang Hui , Shang Peng 

TITLE=First Report of Fecal Microflora of Wild Bar-Headed Goose in Tibet Plateau

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Veterinary Science

VOLUME=Volume 8 - 2021

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/veterinary-science/articles/10.3389/fvets.2021.791461

DOI=10.3389/fvets.2021.791461

ISSN=2297-1769

ABSTRACT=The bar-headed goose (Anser indicus), with head containing two black spots is considered as an important type of bird which breeds in plateau lakes especially in salt water lakes, but also choose and marshy areas. However, the intestinal flora of wild bar-headed geese in Tibet Autonomous Region has not been understood. In this study, intestinal microbes of wild bar-headed geese were sequenced with 16SrDNA. A total of 513505 reads of raw data were obtained and the results analyzed the average number of 128376±2392 reads per sample. The microbiota of all samples comprised of 10 main bacterial phyla including Firmicutes, Prot-eobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Actinobacteria, Cyanobacteria, Patescibacteria, Deferribacteres, Planctomy-cetes, Fusobacteria and Tenericutes. The results indicated that Firmicutes (67.34%) was the predominant phylum followed by Proteobacteria (29.03%) and Cyanobacteria (1.97%). In our study, we investigated that intestinal microbiome in the faces of wild bar-headed geese provides valuable information for further research on the gene function of bar-headed geese and intestinal microbiome of wild animals. These findings are also useful and valuable for genetic and high-altitude research based studies in the Tibet Autonomous Region.