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Research Article | Host-Microbe Biology

Changes in the Gut Microbiota of Urban Subjects during an Immersion in the Traditional Diet and Lifestyle of a Rainforest Village

Kelly V. Ruggles, Jincheng Wang, Angelina Volkova, Monica Contreras, Oscar Noya-Alarcon, Orlana Lander, Hortensia Caballero, Maria G. Dominguez-Bello
Katherine McMahon, Editor
Kelly V. Ruggles
aDepartment of Medicine, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
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Jincheng Wang
aDepartment of Medicine, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
bDepartment of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
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Angelina Volkova
aDepartment of Medicine, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
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Monica Contreras
cCenter for Biophysics and Biochemistry, Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research (IVIC), Caracas, Venezuela
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Oscar Noya-Alarcon
dInstituto de Medicina Tropical, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela
eAmazonic Center for Research and Control of Tropical Diseases (CAICET), Puerto Ayacucho, Venezuela
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Orlana Lander
dInstituto de Medicina Tropical, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela
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Hortensia Caballero
fDepartment of Anthropology, Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research (IVIC), Caracas, Venezuela
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Maria G. Dominguez-Bello
aDepartment of Medicine, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
bDepartment of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
gDepartment of Anthropology, New York University, New York, New York, USA
hDepartment of Anthropology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
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DOI: 10.1128/mSphere.00193-18
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    Comparison of microbial communities in adult and children visitors and villagers. (A, C, E, and G) Principal-coordinate analysis based on unweighted UniFrac index of microbial communities, split by time periods and subjects. Arrowed lines connect samples from the same individual across time, showing the individual trajectories of microbiota changes based on beta diversity during the rainforest visit, from day 1 to day 16. The visitors returned to the city of Caracas on day 17. ANOSIM test were performed to compare visitors and villagers; the overall significance is indicated by the P value (in red where P < 0.05). (B, D, F, and H) Box plots of Faith’s phylogenetic diversity index comparing visitors to villagers at different time periods. Kruskal-Wallis tests with post hoc Dunn’s test using Benjamini-Hochberg correction were performed to determine significance. P values indicate overall significance determined using the Kruskal-Wallis test; asterisks (*) and brackets indicate groups shown to be significantly different by Dunn’s test with adjusted P values.

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    Predicted microbiota age against the actual age of visitors and villagers. (A) Fecal samples. (B) Nasal samples. (C) Oral samples. (D) Skin samples. The prediction was made by constructing a random forest model using the villagers as the training set. The blue line in each panel illustrates a simple linear regression curve using samples from the training set. Data points for visitors are from multiple dates.

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    Numbers of samples from visitors and villagers from each body site and at each time point. Download TABLE S1, DOCX file, 0.01 MB.

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    Principal-coordinate analysis based on Bray-Curtis distances of microbial communities, split by time points and subjects. Arrowed lines connect samples collected from the same individual while the individual was living in Kanarakuni village during day 1 to day 16. The visitors returned to the city of Caracas on day 17. ANOSIM tests were performed to compare data from visitors and villagers; the overall significance is indicated by the P value. Download FIG S1, PDF file, 0.2 MB.

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    Faith’s phylogenetic diversities for microbial communities in different body sites across time. The visitors stayed at Kanarakuni village from day 1 to day 16. Download FIG S2, PDF file, 0.1 MB.

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    Box plot of unweighted UniFrac distance data corresponding to local villagers calculated by comparisons with themselves and with visitors at different time points. Kruskal-Wallis tests with post hoc Dunn’s test using Benjamini-Hochberg correction were performed to determine significance. P values indicate overall significance determined using the Kruskal-Wallis test; asterisks (*) and brackets indicate groups shown to be significantly different by Dunn’s test with adjusted P values. Download FIG S3, PDF file, 0.2 MB.

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    Box plot of interindividual unweighted UniFrac distances among visitors at different time points. Kruskal-Wallis tests with post hoc Dunn’s test using Benjamini-Hochberg correction were performed to determine significance. P values indicate overall significance determined using the Kruskal-Wallis test; asterisks (*) and brackets indicate groups shown to be significantly different by Dunn’s test with adjusted P values. Download FIG S4, PDF file, 0.2 MB.

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    Heat map of the group-discriminant taxa on the genus level with a linear discriminant analysis (LDA) score of >2 based on LEfSe analysis of microbial communities in villagers and visitors. The visitors were in Kanarakuni village during day 1 to day 16 (indicated by the green bar) and returned to the city of Caracas on day 17. Download FIG S5, PDF file, 0.2 MB.

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    Predicted microbiota age among visitors in different body sites across time. The visitors stayed at Kanarakuni village from day 1 to day 16. Download FIG S6, PDF file, 0.1 MB.

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    Detection of parasites among villagers; 4 of 11 adults and 10 of 27 children were examined. Download TABLE S2, DOCX file, 0.01 MB.

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    Diet study dates. Download FIG S7, PDF file, 0.2 MB.

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    Rarefaction analysis of Faith’s phylogenetic diversity (PD). Download FIG S8, PDF file, 0.1 MB.

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Kelly V. Ruggles, Jincheng Wang, Angelina Volkova, Monica Contreras, Oscar Noya-Alarcon, Orlana Lander, Hortensia Caballero, Maria G. Dominguez-Bello
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Changes in the Gut Microbiota of Urban Subjects during an Immersion in the Traditional Diet and Lifestyle of a Rainforest Village
Kelly V. Ruggles, Jincheng Wang, Angelina Volkova, Monica Contreras, Oscar Noya-Alarcon, Orlana Lander, Hortensia Caballero, Maria G. Dominguez-Bello
mSphere Aug 2018, 3 (4) e00193-18; DOI: 10.1128/mSphere.00193-18
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