| Literature DB >> 27277498 |
Christina J Adler1,2, Richard Malik3, Gina V Browne4,5, Jacqueline M Norris6.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Periodontal disease is highly prevalent amongst domestic cats, causing pain, gingival bleeding, reduced food intake, loss of teeth and possibly impacts on overall systemic health. Diet has been suggested to play a role in the development of periodontal disease in cats. There is a complete lack of information about how diet (composition and texture) affects the feline oral microbiome, the composition of which may influence oral health and the development of periodontal disease. We undertook a pilot study to assess if lifelong feeding of dry extruded kibble or wet (canned and/or fresh meat combinations) diets to cats (n = 10) with variable oral health affected the microbiome.Entities:
Keywords: 16S rRNA; Diet; Feline; Next-generation sequencing; Oral microbiome
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Year: 2016 PMID: 27277498 PMCID: PMC4899902 DOI: 10.1186/s40168-016-0169-y
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Microbiome ISSN: 2049-2618 Impact factor: 14.650
Fig. 1Relative abundance of phyla in the oral microbiome of cats on dry- and wet-food diets. The abundance of phyla was calculated from sequences classified as bacteria. These sequences were taxonomically assigned using the Greengenes database following operational taxonomic unit (OTU) classification with uclust (QIIME version 1.8.0). Relative abundances were calculated using normalised sequence data to account for varying sequence depth between samples (Phyloseq version 1.10.0)
Fig. 2Phylogeny of sequences in the oral microbiome of cats on dry and wet diets. The phylogeny was generated using maximum likelihood (RAxML version 730) from representative sequences of the operational taxonomic units (OTUs) and graphically displayed in the Interactive Tree of Life (version 2.1). Sequences with less than 0.2 patristic distance between OTUs were collapsed (Phyloseq version 1.10.0). The abundance of genera in the dry- and wet-food diet groups displayed around the phylogeny was calculated from normalised OTU counts (Phyloseq version 1.10.0). Abbreviation: NA non-assigned
Fig. 3Analysis of covariance on the effect of diet type and age on the feline oral microbiome’s α diversity. Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to test the effect of dry and wet diets on α diversity, while controlling for age of the cats in R (version 3.1.2). Alpha diversity was calculated using the Abundance-based Coverage Estimator (ACE) metric, from operational taxonomic unit (OTU) abundance data (Phyloseq version 1.10.0). ANCOVA was performed on the log of ACE
Fig. 4Differentially abundant genera between the oral microbiomes of cats on dry and wet diets. DESeq was used to test for the presence of differentially abundant operational taxonomic units (OTUs) in the oral microbiome of the cats on a dry- compared to wet-food diet (Phyloseq version 1.10.0). The DESeq test was applied to OTUs that had been filtered to remove singletons and species with an abundance below 0.005 %. The figure presents those OTUs that were found to be significantly different (p < 0.01) between the two diets. Positive log2-fold change values indicate enriched OTUs in the dry diet, and negative log2-fold change values indicate enriched OTUs in the cats eating a wet diet. Abbreviation: NA non-assigned
Characteristics of the participating cats
| Sample ID | Age (years) | Breed | Gendera | Diet | Gingival score | Household |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| COM.02 | 11 | BSH | Female | Wet | 2+ | Household 1 |
| COM.04 | 3 | DSH | Male | Wet | 0 | Household 2 |
| COM.05 | 13 | BSH | Male | Wet | 2+ | Household 1 |
| COM.07 | 2 | DSH | Female | Wet | 1+ | Household 2 |
| COM.08 | 3 | Ragdoll | Male | Dry | 1+ | Household 3 |
| COM.09 | 3 | Ragdoll | Male | Dry | 1+ | Household 3 |
| COM.10 | 1.4 | Burmese | Male | Dry | 1+ | Household 4 |
| COM.11 | 1.4 | DSH | Female | Dry | 1+ | Household 4 |
| COM.12 | 2.7 | DSH | Female | Dry | 1+ | Household 5 |
| COM.13 | 2.7 | DSH | Male | Dry | 1+ | Household 5 |
BSH British shorthaired, DSH domestic crossbred
aAll cats were neutered