Gut microbiota facilitates adaptation of the plateau zokor (Myospalax baileyi) to the plateau living environment.

ABSTRACT: Gut microbiota not only helps the hosts to perform many key physiological functions such as food digestion, energy harvesting and immune regulation, but also influences host ecology and facilitates adaptation of the host to extreme environments. Plateau zokors epitomize successful physiological adaptation to their living environment in the face of the harsh environment characterized by low temperature, low pressure and hypoxia in the Tibetan plateau region and high concentrations of CO₂ in their burrows. Therefore, here we used a metagenomic sequencing approach to explore how gut microbiota contributed to the adaptive evolution of the plateau zokor on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Our metagenomic results show that the gut microbiota of plateau zokors on the Tibetan plateau is not o

SUBMITTER: Hu B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9998695 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature