The effects of food provisioning on the gut microbiota community and antibiotic resistance genes of Yunnan snub-nosed monkey.

ABSTRACT: Yunnan snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus bieti) are the highest elevation lived non-human primate, and their survival has been threatened for decades. To promote their population growth, a reserve provides a typical monkey population with supplemental food. However, the influences of this food provisioning on their gut microbiota and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) were unknown. Therefore, we investigated the gut microbiota and ARGs of the food-provisioned monkey population compared with another wild foraging population. We found that food provisioning significantly increased the gut microbiota diversity and changed the community composition, particularly increased both the Firmicutes abundance and Firmicutes/Bacteroidetes ratio. Meanwhile, the food provisioning decreased the com

SUBMITTER: Li L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10985317 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature