Eukaryotic composition across seasons and social groups in the gut microbiota of wild baboons.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Animals coexist with complex microbiota, including bacteria, viruses, and eukaryotes (e.g., fungi, protists, and helminths). While high-throughput sequencing is commonly used to characterize bacterial communities in animal microbiota, these methods are less often applied to gut eukaryotic composition. Here we used shotgun metagenomic sequencing to characterize eukaryotic diversity in the microbiomes of wild baboons and tested the degree to which eukaryotic community composition was predicted by host social group membership, sex, age, sequencing depth, and season of sample collection.

Results

We analyzed a total of 75 fecal samples collected in 2012 and 2014 from 73 wild baboons in the Amboseli ecosystem in Kenya. DNA from these samples was subjected to shotgun met

SUBMITTER: Chege MN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12182654 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature