Assessing the Influence of Environmental Sources on the Gut Mycobiome of Tibetan Macaques.

ABSTRACT: The distribution and availability of microbes in the environment has an important effect on the composition of the gut microbiome of wild vertebrates. However, our current knowledge of gut-environmental interactions is based principally on data from the host bacterial microbiome, rather than on links that establish how and where hosts acquire their gut mycobiome. This complex interaction needs to be clarified. Here, we explored the relationship between the gut fungal communities of Tibetan macaques (Macaca thibetana) and the presence of environmental (plant and soil) fungi at two study sites using the fungal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and next generation sequencing. Our findings demonstrate that the gut, plant and soil fungal communities in their natural habitat were distinct

SUBMITTER: Sun B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8372991 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature