Factors influencing bacterial microbiome composition in a wild non-human primate community in Tai National Park, Cote d'Ivoire.

ABSTRACT: Microbiomes impact a variety of processes including a host's ability to access nutrients and maintain health. While host species differences in microbiomes have been described across ecosystems, little is known about how microbiomes assemble, particularly in the ecological and social contexts in which they evolved. We examined gut microbiome composition in nine sympatric wild non-human primate (NHP) species. Despite sharing an environment and interspecific interactions, individuals harbored unique and persistent microbiomes influenced by host species, social group, and parentage, but surprisingly not by social relationships among members of a social group. We found a branching order of host-species networks constructed using the composition of their microbiomes as characters, which was inc

SUBMITTER: Gogarten JF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6154966 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature