Unraveling differences in fecal microbiota stability in mammals: from high variable carnivores and consistently stable herbivores.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Through the rapid development in DNA sequencing methods and tools, microbiome studies on a various number of species were performed during the last decade. This advance makes it possible to analyze hundreds of samples from different species at the same time in order to obtain a general overview of the microbiota. However, there is still uncertainty on the variability of the microbiota of different animal orders and on whether certain bacteria within a species are subject to greater fluctuations than others. This is largely due to the fact that the analysis in most extensive comparative studies is based on only a few samples per species or per study site. In our study, we aim to close this knowledge gap by analyzing multiple individual samples per species including two ca

SUBMITTER: Zoelzer F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8567652 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature