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Zhao J, Lu W, Huang S, Le Maho Y, Habold C, Zhang Z. Impacts of Dietary Protein and Niacin Deficiency on Reproduction Performance, Body Growth, and Gut Microbiota of Female Hamsters (Tscherskia triton) and Their Offspring. Microbiol Spectr 2022; 10:e0015722. [PMID: 36318010 PMCID: PMC9784777 DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.00157-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2022] [Accepted: 10/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
Abstract
Food resources are vital for animals to survive, and gut microbiota play an essential role in transferring nutritional materials into functional metabolites for hosts. Although the fact that diet affects host microbiota is well known, its impacts on offspring remain unclear. In this study, we assessed the effects of low-protein and niacin-deficient diets on reproduction performance, body growth, and gut microbiota of greater long-tailed hamsters (Tscherskia triton) under laboratory conditions. We found that maternal low-protein diet (not niacin deficiency) had a significant negative effect on reproduction performance of female hamsters (longer mating latency with males and smaller litter size) and body growth (lower body weight) of both female hamsters and their offspring. Both protein- and niacin-deficient diets showed significant maternal effects on the microbial community in the offspring. A maternal low-protein diet (not niacin deficiency) significantly reduced the abundance of major bacterial taxa producing short-chain fatty acids, increased the abundance of probiotic taxa, and altered microbial function in the offspring. The negative effects of maternal nutritional deficiency on gut microbiota are more pronounced in the protein group than the niacin group and in offspring more than in female hamsters. Our results suggest that a low-protein diet could alter gut microbiota in animals, which may result in negative impacts on their fitness. It is necessary to conduct further analysis to reveal the roles of nutrition, as well as its interaction with gut microbes, in affecting fitness of greater long-tailed hamsters under field conditions. IMPORTANCE Gut microbes are known to be essential for hosts to digest food and absorb nutrients. Currently, it is still unclear how maternal nutrient deficiency affects the fitness of animals by its effect on gut microbes. Here, we evaluated the effects of protein- and niacin-deficient diets on mating behavior, reproduction, body growth, and gut microbiota of both mothers and offspring of the greater long-tailed hamster (Tscherskia triton) under laboratory conditions. We found that a low-protein diet significantly reduced maternal reproduction performance and body growth of both mothers and their offspring. Both protein and niacin deficiencies showed significant maternal effects on the microbial community of the offspring. Our results hint that nutritional deficiency may be a potential factor in causing the observed sustained population decline of the greater long-tailed hamsters due to intensified monoculture in the North China Plain, and this needs further field investigation.
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- Jidong Zhao
- State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
- Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Qinling Ecological Security, Shaanxi Institute of Zoology, Xi'an, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
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- University of Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC, UMR 7178, Strasbourg, France
- Scientific Centre of Monaco, Monaco Principality, Monaco
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- University of Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC, UMR 7178, Strasbourg, France
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- State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
- CAS Center for Excellence in Biotic Interactions, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
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Coalescence Models Reveal the Rise of the White-Bellied Rat (Niviventer confucianus) Following the Loss of Asian Megafauna. J MAMM EVOL 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/s10914-018-9428-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Wan X, Zhang Z. Climate warming and humans played different roles in triggering Late Quaternary extinctions in east and west Eurasia. Proc Biol Sci 2018; 284:rspb.2016.2438. [PMID: 28330916 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.2438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2016] [Accepted: 02/21/2017] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Climate change and humans are proposed as the two key drivers of total extinction of many large mammals in the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene, but disentangling their relative roles remains challenging owing to a lack of quantitative evaluation of human impact and climate-driven distribution changes on the extinctions of these large mammals in a continuous temporal-spatial dimension. Here, our analyses showed that temperature change had significant effects on mammoth (genus Mammuthus), rhinoceros (Rhinocerotidae), horse (Equidae) and deer (Cervidae). Rapid global warming was the predominant factor driving the total extinction of mammoths and rhinos in frigid zones from the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene. Humans showed significant, negative effects on extirpations of the four mammalian taxa, and were the predominant factor causing the extinction or major extirpations of rhinos and horses. Deer survived both rapid climate warming and extensive human impacts. Our study indicates that both the current rates of warming and range shifts of species are much faster than those from the Late Pleistocene to Holocene. Our results provide new insight into the extinction of Late Quaternary megafauna by demonstrating taxon-, period- and region-specific differences in extinction drivers of climate change and human disturbances, and some implications about the extinction risk of animals by recent and ongoing climate warming.
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- Xinru Wan
- State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents in Agriculture, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, People's Republic of China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents in Agriculture, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, People's Republic of China
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WEN J, TAN S, QIAO Q, SHI L, HUANG Y, ZHAO Z. Strategies of behavior, energetic and thermogenesis of striped hamsters in response to food deprivation. Integr Zool 2018; 13:70-83. [DOI: 10.1111/1749-4877.12259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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- Jing WEN
- College of Life and Environmental ScienceWenzhou University Wenzhou China
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- College of Life and Environmental ScienceWenzhou University Wenzhou China
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- College of Life and Environmental ScienceWenzhou University Wenzhou China
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- College of Life and Environmental ScienceWenzhou University Wenzhou China
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- College of Life and Environmental ScienceWenzhou University Wenzhou China
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- College of Life and Environmental ScienceWenzhou University Wenzhou China
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YE J, XIAO Z, LI C, WANG F, LIAO J, FU J, ZHANG Z. Past climate change and recent anthropogenic activities affect genetic structure and population demography of the greater long-tailed hamster in northern China. Integr Zool 2015. [DOI: 10.1111/1749-4877.12150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Junbin YE
- State Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management; Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing China
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- State Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management; Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing China
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- State Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management; Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing China
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- State Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management; Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing China
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- School of Life Sciences; Lanzhou University; Lanzhou China
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- Department of Integrative Biology; University of Guelph; Guelph Ontario Canada
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- State Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management; Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing China
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