Fecal proteomics of wild capuchins reveals impacts of season, diet, age, and, sex on gut physiology.

ABSTRACT: Understanding how the physiology of free-ranging mammals is impacted by environmental stressors is a major focus of ecological research. However, the constraints of non-invasive sampling pose serious challenges to the acquisition of physiological data from most species of primates. As a result, little is known about how the gut responds to ecological stimuli at the cellular level in wild populations. Recent research has demonstrated that proteomics could fill this knowledge gap by sequencing and quantifying proteins directly from primate feces. In order to ascertain how the gut of free-ranging white-faced capuchin monkeys (C. imitator) is influenced by environmental heterogeneity, diet, age, and sex, we sequenced 45 fecal proteomes from 24 individuals from the Sector Santa Rosa popu

SUBMITTER: Orkin JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12262382 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature