Gut Microbiota of Wild and Captive Alpine Musk Deer (Moschus chrysogaster).

ABSTRACT: As for the wild animals, their diet components are always changed, so that we have to monitor such changes by analyzing the modification of intestinal microbial community. Such effort allows us to amend their conservation strategies and tactics accordingly so that they are able to appropriately adapt to the new environment and dietary selection. In this study we focus on the gut flora of two groups of an endangered species, Alpine musk deer (Moschus chrysogaster), wild group (WG) which is compared with that of the individuals of the same species but kept in the captivities (CG), a control group. Such a project is aimed to work out whether the composition of the gut microbes has significantly been changed due to captive feedings. To do so, we used 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing to char

SUBMITTER: Sun Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6985557 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature