{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["13"],"submitter":["Ni Q"],"funding":["National Natural Science Foundation of China"],"pubmed_abstract":["Slow lorises are small arboreal and nocturnal primates. Due to the illegal trade, a large number of slow lorises were confiscated into wildlife sanctuaries or rescue centers. The re-release has been considered a preferable approach for alleviating the captive pressure, but inappropriate and long-term confinement make it difficult to achieve this goal. In this study, we investigated and compared the fecal and oral microbiome of Bengal slow lorises (<i>Nycticebus bengalensis</i>) under long-term captivity (LC) and short-term captivity (SC) groups based on 16s rRNA high-throughput gene sequencing. The oral microbiome displayed higher Chao1 richness but lower Shannon and Simpson indices than the fecal microbiome. The Bengal slow lorises under long-term captivity had abundant pathogenic genera "],"journal":["Frontiers in microbiology"],"pagination":["941261"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9553000"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Oral and fecal microbiome of confiscated Bengal slow lorises in response to confinement duration."],"pmcid":["PMC9553000"],"pubmed_authors":["Fan X","Li D","Yang M","Kong F","Xie M","Ni Q","Xing B","Zhang M","Xu H","Yang D","Dong S","Zeng B","Yao Y"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Oral and fecal microbiome of confiscated Bengal slow lorises in response to confinement duration.","description":"Slow lorises are small arboreal and nocturnal primates. Due to the illegal trade, a large number of slow lorises were confiscated into wildlife sanctuaries or rescue centers. The re-release has been considered a preferable approach for alleviating the captive pressure, but inappropriate and long-term confinement make it difficult to achieve this goal. In this study, we investigated and compared the fecal and oral microbiome of Bengal slow lorises (<i>Nycticebus bengalensis</i>) under long-term captivity (LC) and short-term captivity (SC) groups based on 16s rRNA high-throughput gene sequencing. The oral microbiome displayed higher Chao1 richness but lower Shannon and Simpson indices than the fecal microbiome. The Bengal slow lorises under long-term captivity had abundant pathogenic genera ","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022","modification":"2025-04-04T09:30:29.938Z","creation":"2025-02-19T01:01:54.572Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9553000","cross_references":{"pubmed":["36238588"],"doi":["10.3389/fmicb.2022.941261"]}}