binned metagenome: spire_mag_02000900
Bacteroides uniformis
ENA first public
2024-09-20
INSDC center name
EMBL Heidelberg
INSDC status
public
Submitter Id
spire_mag_02000900
assembly quality
Many fragments with little to no review of assembly other than reporting of standard assembly statistics
assembly software
megahit 1.2.9
binning parameters
default
binning software
metabat 2.12.1
broad-scale environmental context
human digestive system
broker name
EBI-EMG
collection date
2015-09-30
completeness score
82.69
completeness software
checkm2 0.1.3
contamination score
5.29
environmental medium
stool
geographic location (country and/or sea)
Ireland
geographic location (latitude)
missing: third party data
geographic location (longitude)
missing: third party data
investigation type
metagenome-assembled genome
isolation_source
human gut metagenome
local environmental context
human gut
metagenomic source
human gut metagenome
project name
The numerous changes and stresses experienced during travel have the potential to impact the gut microbiome. Furthermore, travel has been implicated in the spread of antibiotic resistance genes across continents, while animal models employed to investigate the consequences of dietary changes during travel demonstrated impacts on gut motility and microbiota composition. The possibility of gut microbiome-mediated negative impacts arising from travel, and associated consequences for peak performance, would be of particular concern for elite athletes. To this end, here, the gut microbiome of Irish cricketers during travel was characterised.Faecal samples were collected from male (N=14) and female (N=7) cricket players during the build-up to the 2016 Cricket World Cup. Baseline and post-travel samples were collected from all participants and subjected to 16S rRNA gene sequencing. Additionally, samples from a subset of participants (N=4), who provided samples at all time points, were analysed by shotgun metagenomic sequencing.Analysis revealed reductions in alpha diversity following travel, accompanied by shifts in the taxonomic profile of the gut microbiome. The functional potential of the gut microbiome was also altered following travel, with antibiotic resistance and virulence genes undergoing notable changes. This study identifies periods of extensive travel as instances during which the gut microbiome of elite athletes may be particularly susceptible to disruption.
sample derived from
SAMEA4853324
sample name
spire_mag_02000900
scientific_name
Bacteroides uniformis
sequencing method
NextSeq 500
taxonomic identity marker
multi-marker approach