Evidence for cross transmission of pathogens between wild hooded cranes and domestic geese

Driven by habitat loss from anthropogenic activities, wintering migratory birds forage together with poultry in paddy fields, and thus impose risks of cross transmitting pathogens. To date, there is little evidence for such pathogen transmission between wild poultry. Using the high-throughput sequencing, we report on detected potential pathogens both hooded cranes Grus monacha sympatric domestic geese Anser anser domesticus during period, infer possibility cross-species transmission. The results revealed that number shared amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) gut microbiota two species was low early stage (17.2%; 5 ASVs shared) but increased to 56.3% (18 late stage. That is, microbial communities became more similar through co-foraging supporting period. Importantly, appeared be largely geese, although some may have become specialized goose Humans are also face contracting these their frequent contacts It therefore, necessary closely monitor this pathway animals even humans.