Biology Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches, Lectures
Title
Oral microbiome variation in chimpanzees from Gombe National Park
Event Name/Location
87th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists / Austin, Texas, USA
Document Type
Conference Presentation
Publication Date
4-2018
Abstract
To understand the ancestral microorganisms within the human oral cavity, it is imperative to examine the oral ecosystem of closely related primate species. Dental calculus (calcified plaque) allows for the investigation of long-term microbial genetic information, but has yet to be fully explored within non-human primates. We present results from shotgun prepared, Illumina sequenced dental calculus DNA libraries in order to understand the microbial diversity of wild chimpanzees compared to humans. We compare dental calculus from 16 deceased chimpanzees belonging to the Kasekela community spanning 50 years of occupation at Gombe National Park. These samples are dominated by the microbial phyla Spirochaetes, TM7, and Euryarchaeota, and significantly differ from phyla commonly found within human plaque. We also investigate the presence of ‘Red Complex’ bacteria within chimpanzees, a group of microbes thought to be associated with periodontal disease in human populations. We discuss how these results fit into our current knowledge of primate oral ecosystems and the implications of these findings for human health and evolution.
Conference Proceeding Title
American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Volume 165, Issue S66
ISSN
0002-9483
DOI
10.1002/ajpa.23489
Last Page
196
NSUWorks Citation
Ozga, Andrew T.; Nockerts, Rebecca; Wilson, Michael L.; Gilby, Ian C.; Pusey, Anne; and Stone, Anne C., "Oral microbiome variation in chimpanzees from Gombe National Park" (2018). Biology Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches, Lectures. 378.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cnso_bio_facpres/378
ORCID ID
0000-0003-4540-7106
ResearcherID
D-1147-2018