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Patterns of host gene expression associated with harboring a foregut microbial community

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Genomics, September 2017
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Title
Patterns of host gene expression associated with harboring a foregut microbial community
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BMC Genomics, September 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12864-017-4101-z
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Kevin D. Kohl, Kelly F. Oakeson, Diane Dunn, David K. Meyerholz, Colin Dale, Robert B. Weiss, M. Denise Dearing

Abstract

Harboring foregut microbial communities is considered a key innovation that allows herbivorous mammals to colonize new ecological niches. However, the functions of these chambers have only been well studied at the molecular level in ruminants. Here, we investigate gene expression in the foregut chamber of herbivorous rodents and ask whether these gene expression patterns are consistent with results in ruminants. We compared gene expression in foregut tissues of two rodent species: Stephen's woodrat (Neotoma stephensi), which harbors a dense foregut microbial community, and the lab rat (Rattus norvegicus), which lacks such a community. We found that woodrats have higher abundances of transcripts associated with smooth muscle processes, specifically a higher expression of the smoothelin-like 1 gene, which may assist in contractile properties of this tissue to retain food material in the foregut chamber. The expression of genes associated with keratinization and cornification exhibited a complex pattern of differences between the two species, suggesting distinct molecular mechanisms. Lab rats exhibited higher abundances of transcripts associated with immune function, likely to inhibit microbial growth in the foregut of this species. Some of our results were consistent with previous findings in ruminants (high expression of facilitative glucose transporters, lower expression of B4galnt2), suggestive of possible convergent evolution, while other results were unclear, and perhaps represent novel host-microbe interactions in rodents. Overall, our results suggest that harboring a foregut microbiota is associated with changes to the functions and host-microbe interactions of the foregut tissues.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 34%
Student > Master 5 17%
Researcher 5 17%
Professor 3 10%
Other 1 3%
Other 1 3%
Unknown 4 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 14 48%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 10%
Environmental Science 2 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 7%
Computer Science 2 7%
Other 2 7%
Unknown 4 14%
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