Fungal pathogens pose a potential threat to animal and plant health in desertified and pika-burrowed alpine meadows on the Tibetan Plateau

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	Fungal pathogens pose a potential threat to animal and plant health in desertified and pika-burrowed alpine meadows on the Tibetan Plateau
	Li, Yaoming; Jiang, Lili; Lv, Wangwang; Cui, Shujuan; Zhang, Lirong; Wang, Qi; Meng, Fandong; Li, Bowen; Liu, Peipei; Suonan, Ji; Renzeng, Wangmu; Li, Xine; Luo, Caiyun; Zhang, Zhenhua; Dorji, Tsechoe; Wang, Yanfen; Wang, Shiping
	2019
发表期刊	CANADIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY
卷号	65 期号:5
摘要	Intact Tibetan meadows provide significant defense against soil-borne pathogen dispersal. However, dramatic meadow degradation has been observed due to climate change and pika damage, but their impacts on soil-borne pathogens are still unclear. With approximately 40% of the world's population living in Tibetan Plateau and its downstream watersheds, this lack of knowledge should be of great concern. Here, we used Illumina amplicon sequencing to characterize the changes in potential human, domestic animal, plant, and zoonotic bacterial and fungal pathogens in nondegraded, desertified, and pika-burrowed meadows. The relative abundance of bacterial domestic animal pathogens and zoonotic pathogens were significantly increased by desertification. Pika burrowing significantly increased the relative abundance of bacterial human pathogens and zoonotic pathogens. The species richness and relative abundance of fungal pathogens was significantly increased by desertification and pika burrowing. Accordingly, fungal plant and animal pathogens categorized by FUNGuid significantly increased in desertified and pika-burrowed meadows. Soil chemical and plant properties explained 38% and 64% of the bacterial and fungal pathogen community variance, respectively. Therefore, our study indicates for the first time that both alpine meadow desertification and pika burrowing could potentially increase infectious disease risks in the alpine ecosystem, especially for fungal diseases.
关键词	Tibetan meadow desertification pika behavior microbial pathogens richness and abundance
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://210.75.249.4/handle/363003/59802
专题	中国科学院西北高原生物研究所
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Li, Yaoming,Jiang, Lili,Lv, Wangwang,et al. Fungal pathogens pose a potential threat to animal and plant health in desertified and pika-burrowed alpine meadows on the Tibetan Plateau[J]. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY,2019,65(5).
APA	Li, Yaoming.,Jiang, Lili.,Lv, Wangwang.,Cui, Shujuan.,Zhang, Lirong.,...&Wang, Shiping.(2019).Fungal pathogens pose a potential threat to animal and plant health in desertified and pika-burrowed alpine meadows on the Tibetan Plateau.CANADIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY,65(5).
MLA	Li, Yaoming,et al."Fungal pathogens pose a potential threat to animal and plant health in desertified and pika-burrowed alpine meadows on the Tibetan Plateau".CANADIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY 65.5(2019).