Bacteria isolated from Bengal cat (Felis catus × Prionailurus bengalensis) anal sac secretions produce volatile compounds potentially associated with animal signaling

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Autoři: Mei S. Yamaguchi ^aff001; Holly H. Ganz ^aff002; Adrienne W. Cho ^aff002; Thant H. Zaw ^aff002; Guillaume Jospin ^aff002; Mitchell M. McCartney ^aff001; Cristina E. Davis ^aff001; Jonathan A. Eisen ^aff002; David A. Coil ^aff002
Působiště autorů: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America ^aff001; Genome Center, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America ^aff002; Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America ^aff003; Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America ^aff004
Vyšlo v časopise: PLoS ONE 14(9)
Kategorie: Research Article
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216846

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In social animals, scent secretions and marking behaviors play critical roles in communication, including intraspecific signals, such as identifying individuals and group membership, as well as interspecific signaling. Anal sacs are an important odor producing organ found across the carnivorans (species in the mammalian Order Carnivora). Secretions from the anal sac may be used as chemical signals by animals for behaviors ranging from defense to species recognition to signaling reproductive status. In addition, a recent study suggests that domestic cats utilize short-chain free fatty acids in anal sac secretions for individual recognition. The fermentation hypothesis is the idea that symbiotic microorganisms living in association with animals contribute to odor profiles used in chemical communication and that variation in these chemical signals reflects variation in the microbial community. Here we examine the fermentation hypothesis by characterizing volatile organic compounds (VOC) and bacteria isolated from anal sac secretions collected from a male Bengal cat (Felis catus × Prionailurus bengalensis), a cross between the domestic cat and the leopard cat. Both left and right anal sacs of a male Bengal cat were manually expressed (emptied) and collected. Half of the material was used to culture bacteria or to extract bacterial DNA and the other half was used for VOC analysis. DNA was extracted from the anal sac secretions and used for a 16S rRNA gene PCR amplification and sequencing based characterization of the microbial community. Additionally, some of the material was plated out in order to isolate bacterial colonies. Three taxa (Bacteroides fragilis, Tessaracoccus, and Finegoldia magna) were relatively abundant in the 16S rRNA gene sequence data and also isolated by culturing. Using Solid Phase Microextraction (SPME) gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), we tentatively identified 52 compounds from the Bengal cat anal sac secretions and 67 compounds from cultures of the three bacterial isolates chosen for further analysis. Among 67 compounds tentatively identified from bacterial isolates, 51 were also found in the anal sac secretion. We show that the bacterial community in the anal sac consists primarily of only a few abundant taxa and that isolates of these taxa produce numerous volatiles that are found in the combined anal sac volatile profile. Several of these volatiles are found in anal sac secretions from other carnivorans, and are also associated with known bacterial biosynthesis pathways. This is consistent with the fermentation hypothesis and the possibility that the anal sac is maintained at least in part to house bacteria that produce volatiles for the host.

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Biology and life sciences – Physiology – Physiological processes – Secretion – Organisms – Eukaryota – Animals – Vertebrates – Amniotes – Mammals – Cats – Animal types – Domestic animals – Bacteria – Anaerobic bacteria – Gut bacteria – Bacteroides – Biochemistry – Nucleic acids – RNA – Non-coding RNA – Ribosomal RNA – Ribosomes – Lipids – Fatty acids – Cell biology – Cellular structures and organelles – Psychology – Behavior – Animal behavior – Animal communication – Zoology – Medicine and health sciences – Social sciences

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Bacteria isolated from Bengal cat (Felis catus × Prionailurus bengalensis) anal sac secretions produce volatile compounds potentially associated with animal signaling

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