Gut microbiota resilience in horse athletes following holidays out to pasture.
Adaptation, Physiological
Animal Welfare
/ ethics
Animals
Bacteroidetes
/ classification
Biodiversity
Butyrates
/ metabolism
Clostridiales
/ classification
Competitive Behavior
/ physiology
Feces
/ microbiology
Female
Fibrobacteres
/ classification
Firmicutes
/ classification
Gastrointestinal Microbiome
/ genetics
Horses
/ microbiology
Male
RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
/ genetics
Spirochaetales
/ classification
Sports
Stress, Physiological
Journal
Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
03 03 2021
03 03 2021
Historique:
received:
16
10
2020
accepted:
16
02
2021
entrez:
4
3
2021
pubmed:
5
3
2021
medline:
15
12
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Elite horse athletes that live in individual boxes and train and compete for hours experience long-term physical and mental stress that compromises animal welfare and alters the gut microbiota. We therefore assessed if a temporary period out to pasture with conspecifics could improve animal welfare and in turn, favorably affect intestinal microbiota composition. A total of 27 athletes were monitored before and after a period of 1.5 months out to pasture, and their fecal microbiota and behavior profiles were compared to those of 18 horses kept in individual boxes. The overall diversity and microbiota composition of pasture and control individuals were temporally similar, suggesting resilience to environmental challenges. However, pasture exposure induced an increase in Ruminococcus and Coprococcus that lasted 1-month after the return to individual boxes, which may have promoted beneficial effects on health and welfare. Associations between the gut microbiota composition and behavior indicating poor welfare were established. Furthermore, withdrawn behavior was associated with the relative abundances of Lachnospiraceae AC2044 group and Clostridiales family XIII. Both accommodate a large part of butyrate-producing bacterial genera. While we cannot infer causality within this study, arguably, these findings suggest that management practices maintained over a longer period of time may moderate the behavior link to the gut ecosystem beyond its resilience potential.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33658551
doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-84497-y
pii: 10.1038/s41598-021-84497-y
pmc: PMC7930273
doi:
Substances chimiques
Butyrates
0
RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
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