Exploratory metagenomics of bacterial diversity in semen from indonesian native roosters supplemented with curcumin and penicillin-streptomycin
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Objective
This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of curcumin and penicillin-streptomycin as diluents on changes in the structure and diversity of the chicken semen microbiome during storage.
Methods
Semen was collected from Kampung chickens (native to Indonesia) and divided into five treatment groups: diluted without antibiotics or curcumin (control), and diluted with additions of 10 μM, 20 μM, and 30 μM curcumin, and penicillin-streptomycin, respectively. The semen was stored at 5 °C for 24 hours. The composition and diversity of the semen microbiome were analyzed using 16S full-length amplicon sequencing.
Results
Analysis of the top 10 species showed that Uncultured Saccharofermentans sp. and Porphyromonas somerae served as the most dominant and stable core microbiome across all treatments. Alpha diversity analysis showed that the addition of curcumin and penicillin-streptomycin reduced microbial richness (Observed, Chao1, ACE, and Fisher) in a dose-dependent manner, yet maintained overall diversity (Shannon and Simpson), with the penicillin-streptomycin treatment resulting in the highest species evenness (InvSimpson). Beta diversity analysis revealed extreme separation of taxonomic abundance variance in the penicillin-streptomycin group, whereas the curcumin treatment exhibited a dose-dependent pattern of microbial abundance transition. Venn diagram analysis identified 415 OTUs as the core microbiome and confirmed that curcumin acts through selective filtering that stabilizes the ecosystem without triggering the proliferation of opportunistic taxa.
Conclusion
Penicillin-streptomycin acts more rapidly and dominantly in suppressing/killing bacterial populations; however, the addition of curcumin is able to modulate the microbial ecosystem in a more balanced manner by suppressing the growth of harmful bacteria without compromising the integrity of the chicken semen environment.
