Gut microbiome responds compositionally and functionally to the seasonal diet variations in wild gibbons.

ABSTRACT: Wild animals may encounter multiple challenges especially food shortage and altered diet composition in their suboptimal ranges. Yet, how the gut microbiome responds to dietary changes remains poorly understood. Prior studies on wild animal microbiomes have typically leaned upon relatively coarse dietary records and individually unresolved fecal samples. Here, we conducted a longitudinal study integrating 514 time-series individually recognized fecal samples with parallel fine-grained dietary data from two Skywalker hoolock gibbon (Hoolock tianxing) groups populating high-altitude mountainous forests in western Yunnan Province, China. 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing showed a remarkable seasonal fluctuation in the gibbons' gut microbial community structure both across individuals and betw

SUBMITTER: Li Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10121652 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature