Seasonality of the gut microbiota of free-ranging white-faced capuchins in a tropical dry forest.

ABSTRACT: Research on the gut microbiota of free-ranging mammals is offering new insights into dietary ecology. However, for free-ranging primates, little information is available for how microbiomes are influenced by ecological variation through time. Primates inhabiting seasonal tropical dry forests undergo seasonally specific decreases in food abundance and water availability, which have been linked to adverse health effects. Throughout the course of a seasonal transition in 2014, we collected fecal samples from three social groups of free-ranging white-faced capuchin monkeys (Cebus capucinus imitator) in Sector Santa Rosa, Área de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica. 16S rRNA sequencing data reveal that unlike other primates, the white-faced capuchin monkey gut is dominated by Bifidobacterium an

SUBMITTER: Orkin JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6298967 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature