Relative importance of ornaments, and sperm quality on paternity in collared flycatchers

0454949 - ÚBO 2016 ES eng A - Abstract
Kropáčková, L. - Kubovčiak, J. - Těšický, M. - Albrecht, Tomáš - Tomášek, Oldřich - Martin, J.-F. - Vinkler, M. - Procházka, Petr - Kreisinger, Jakub
Relative importance of ornaments, and sperm quality on paternity in collared flycatchers.
10th conference of the European Ornithologist's Union, 24-28 August 2015, Badajoz: programme and abstracts. Badajoz: European Ornithologist's Union, 2015 - (Martin, G.; Marzal, A.). O.34
[Conference of the European Ornithologist's Union /10./. 24.08.2015-28.08.2015, Badajoz]
Institutional support: RVO:68081766
Keywords : passerine birds * microbiota
Subject RIV: EG - Zoology

Significant attention has been devoted to the research on the composition of the gastrointestinal microbiota in humans or laboratory mammals. Nevertheless, factors determining composition of microbiota colonizing wild populations of vertebrates are still insufficiently understood, despite their potential ecological and evolutionary importance. In this contribution, we performed large scale analysis of the interspecific variation in taxonomic and functional composition of gut microbiota in 57 passerine species (485 samples analysed in total) using metabarcoding of bacterial V3-V4 16s rRNA on Illumina MiSeq. We tested if ecological traits such as diet composition, migration, preferred habitat and population densities affect inter- and intra-specific variation in gut microbiota and if there is any evidence for the co-phylogeny between host and its gut microbiome.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0255610