Linking the bacterial microbiome between gut and habitat soil of Tibetan macaque (Macaca thibetana).

ABSTRACT: Soil is a part of the habitat environment of terrestrial or semi-terrestrial mammals, which contains a wide variety of microbes. Although the soil microbiome of the host habitat is considered to be a potentially important influence factor on the mammalian gut microbiome and health, few data are currently available to explore the relationship between gut and host habitat soil microbiome in wild primates. Here, marked divergence of the bacterial microbiome in composition and structure between Tibetan macaques (Macaca thibetana) guts and its habitat soil were detected. In addition, we found that most of the core genera abundance and ASVs in the Tibetan macaques' gut bacterial microbiome could be detected in the corresponding soil samples, but with low abundance. However, the core abund

SUBMITTER: Xu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9471045 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature