Changes in social environment impact primate gut microbiota composition.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The gut microbiota (GM) has proven to be essential for both physical health and mental wellbeing, yet the forces that ultimately shape its composition remain opaque. One critical force known to affect the GM is the social environment. Prior work in humans and free-ranging non-human primates has shown that cohabitation and frequent social interaction can lead to changes in GM composition. However, it is difficult to assess the direction of causation in these studies, and interpretations are complicated by the influence of uncontrolled but correlated factors, such as shared diet.

Results

We performed a 15-month longitudinal investigation wherein we disentangled the impacts of diet and social living conditions on GM composition in a captive cohort of 13 male cynomolg

SUBMITTER: Pearce CS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11562706 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature