2024-09-20
ENA first public
ERC000050
ENA-CHECKLIST
EMBL Heidelberg
INSDC center name
public
INSDC status
ERS21064358
SRA accession
spire_mag_02474775
Submitter Id
Many fragments with little to no review of assembly other than reporting of standard assembly statistics
assembly quality
megahit 1.2.9
assembly software
default
binning parameters
metabat 2.12.1
binning software
human digestive system
broad-scale environmental context
EBI-EMG
broker name
missing: third party data
collection date
99.71
%
completeness score
checkm2 0.1.3
completeness software
7.43
%
contamination score
This sample represents a Third Party Annotation (TPA) binned metagenome assembled from the metagenomic run ERR2835720 of study ERP111414.
description
stool
environmental medium
Nepal
geographic location (country and/or sea)
28.17000000
DD
geographic location (latitude)
84.25000000
DD
geographic location (longitude)
metagenome-assembled genome
investigation type
human gut metagenome
isolation_source
human gut
local environmental context
human gut metagenome
metagenomic source
Phocaeicola vulgatus
organism
The composition of the gut microbiome in industrialized populations differs from those living traditional lifestyles. However, it has been difficult to separate the contributions of human genetic and geographic factors from lifestyle. Whether shifts away from the foraging lifestyle that characterizes much of humanity’s past influence the gut microbiome, and to what degree, remains unclear. Here, we characterize the stool bacterial composition of four Himalayan populations to investigate how the gut community changes in response to shifts in traditional human lifestyles. These groups led seminomadic hunting-gathering lifestyles until transitioning to varying levels of agricultural dependence upon farming. The Tharu began farming 250-300 years ago, the Raute and Raji transitioned 30-40 years ago, and the Chepang retain many aspects of a foraging lifestyle. We assess the contributions of dietary and environmental factors on their gut-associated microbes and find that differences in the lifestyles of Himalayan foragers and farmers are strongly correlated with microbial community variation. Furthermore, the gut microbiomes of all four traditional Himalayan populations are distinct from that of the Americans, indicating that industrialization may further exacerbate differences in the gut community. The Chepang foragers harbor elevated abundance of taxa associated with foragers around the world. Conversely, the gut microbiomes of the populations that have transitioned to farming are more similar to those of Americans, with agricultural dependence and several associated lifestyle and environmental factors correlating with the extent of microbiome divergence from the foraging population. The gut microbiomes of Raute and Raji reveal an intermediate state between the Chepang and Tharu, indicating that divergence from a stereotypical foraging microbiome can occur within a single generation. Our results also show that environmental factors such as drinking water source and solid cooking fuel are significantly associated with the gut microbiome. Despite the pronounced differences in gut bacterial composition across populations, we found little differences in alpha diversity across lifestyles. These findings in genetically similar populations living in the same geographical region establish the key role of lifestyle in determining human gut microbiome composition and point to the next challenging steps of determining how large-scale gut microbiome reconfiguration impacts human biology.
project name
SAMEA4969183
sample derived from
Phocaeicola vulgatus
scientific_name
Illumina MiSeq
sequencing method
multi-marker approach
taxonomic identity marker
binned metagenome: spire_mag_02474775
title