Pathogenic bacterial taxa constitute a substantial portion of fecal microbiota in common migratory bats and birds in Europe.

ABSTRACT: Identifying the wildlife reservoirs of bacterial pathogens, spatially and temporally, is important for assessing the threats to human and the rest of the biosphere. Our objective was to study Europe-wide characteristics of the fecal microbiota of four highly mobile migratory vertebrates, that is, one bat (Pipistrellus nathusii) and three bird species (Turdus merula, Anas platyrhynchos, Columba palumbus). The 351 sample PacBio data set of almost the entire 16S rRNA gene with 438,997 amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) assigned 3,277 bacterial species. A significant proportion of the ASVs were assigned to bacterial genera having species pathogenic to human or animals. These pathogen ASVs accounted for 45% of all the ASVs and statistically were more frequent at highe

SUBMITTER: Poosakkannu A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11878047 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature