Associations Between Nutrition, Gut Microbiome, and Health in A Novel Nonhuman Primate Model.

ABSTRACT: Red-shanked doucs (Pygathrix nemaeus) are endangered, foregut-fermenting colobine primates which are difficult to maintain in captivity. There are critical gaps in our understanding of their natural lifestyle, including dietary habits such as consumption of leaves, unripe fruit, flowers, seeds, and other plant parts. There is also a lack of understanding of enteric adaptations, including their unique microflora. To address these knowledge gaps, we used the douc as a model to study relationships between gastrointestinal microbial community structure and lifestyle. We analyzed published fecal samples as well as detailed dietary history from doucs with four distinct lifestyles (wild, semi-wild, semi-captive, and captive) and determined gastrointestinal bacterial microbiome composition using 1

SUBMITTER: Clayton JB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6057944 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature