Early exposure to animals and childhood body mass index percentile and percentage fat mass

Ferguson, Pamela L.; Commodore, Sarah; Neelon, Brian; Cobbs, Jacketta; Sciscione, Anthony; Grobman, William A.; Newman, Roger B.; Tita, Alan; Nageotte, Michael P.; Palomares, Kristy; Skupski, Daniel; Vena, John E.; Hunt, Kelly J.

doi:10.1080/2574254x.2021.2021788

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“…In fact, most domestic cats can not only bring mental happiness to their owners but can also provide health benefits through microbial communication. The hygiene hypothesis has demonstrated that early-life exposure to household furry pets can help the owners to establish a microbial balance and maintain immune system function, which could reduce the chances of obesity, diabetes, and allergic diseases [ 4 , 5 ].…”

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Comparative Analyses of the Gut Microbiota in Growing Ragdoll Cats and Felinae Cats

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Animals

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Today, domestic cats are important human companion animals for their appearance and favorable personalities. During the history of their domestication, the morphological and genetic portraits of domestic cats changed significantly from their wild ancestors, and the gut microbial communities of different breeds of cats also apparently differ. In the current study, the gut microbiota of Ragdoll cats and Felinae cats were analyzed and compared. Our data indicated that the diversity and richness of the gut microbiota in the Felinae cats were much higher than in the Ragdoll cats. The taxonomic analyses revealed that the most predominant phyla of the feline gut microbiota were Firmicutes, Bacteroidota, Fusobacteriota, Proteobacteria, Actinobacteriota, Campilobacterota, and others, while the most predominant genera were Anaerococcus, Fusobacterium, Bacteroides, Escherichia-Shigella, Finegoldia, Porphyromonas, Collinsella, Lactobacillus, Ruminococcus_gnavus_group, Prevotella, and others. Different microbial communities between the Ragdoll group and the Felinae group were observed, and the compared results demonstrated that the relative abundances of beneficial microbes (such as Lactobacillus, Enterococcus, Streptococcus, Blautia, Roseburia, and so on) in the Ragdoll group were much higher than in the Felinae group. The co-occurrence network revealed that the number of nodes and links in the Felinae group was significantly higher than the Ragdoll group, which meant that the network of the Felinae group was larger and more complex than that of the Ragdoll group. PICRUSt function analyses indicated that the differences in microbial genes might influence the energy metabolism and immune functions of the host. In all, our data demonstrated that the richness and diversity of beneficial microbes in the Ragdoll group were much higher than the Felinae group. Therefore, it is possible to isolate and identify more candidate probiotics in the gut microbiota of growing Ragdoll cats.

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