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Microbial diversity and evidence of novel homoacetogens in the gut of both geriatric and adult giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca).
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- Lignocellulose Fermentation Products Generated by Giant Panda Gut Microbiomes Depend Ultimately on pH Rather than Portion of Bamboo: A Preliminary Study.Microorganisms · 2022Article
- Giant pandas' staple food bamboo phyllosphere fungal community and its influencing factors.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- We and herbivores eat endophytes.Microbial biotechnology · 2021Review
- Metagenomic analysis revealed a wide distribution of antibiotic resistance genes and biosynthesis of antibiotics in the gut of giant pandas.BMC microbiology · 2021Article
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- Microorganism's adaptation of Crucian carp may closely relate to its living environments.MicrobiologyOpen · 2019Article
- Comparative Analysis of Gut Microbiota Among the Male, Female and Pregnant Giant Pandas (Open life sciences · 2019Article
- Microbial communities in different regions of the gastrointestinal tract in East Asian finless porpoises (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis sunameri).Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Age-associated microbiome shows the giant panda lives on hemicelluloses, not on cellulose.The ISME journal · 2018Article
- Analysis of the Microbial Diversity in the Fecal Material of Giraffes.Current microbiology · 2018Article
- Metagenomic Analysis of Bacteria, Fungi, Bacteriophages, and Helminths in the Gut of Giant Pandas.Frontiers in microbiology · 2018Article
- Network analysis of gut microbiota literature: an overview of the research landscape in non-human animal studies.The ISME journal · 2017Review
- Analysis and comparison of the wolf microbiome under different environmental factors using three different data of Next Generation Sequencing.Scientific reports · 2017Article
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Abstract
Recent studies have described the bacterial community residing in the guts of giant pandas, together with the presence of lignocellulolytic enzymes. However, a more comprehensive understanding of the intestinal microbial composition and its functional capacity in giant pandas remains a major goal. Here, we conducted a comparison of bacterial, fungal and homoacetogenic microbial communities from fecal samples taken from two geriatric and two adult captive giant pandas. 16S rDNA amplicon pyrosequencing revealed that Firmicutes and Proteobacteria are the most abundant microbiota in both geriatric and adult giant pandas. However, members of phylum Actinobacteria found in adult giant pandas were absent in their geriatric counterparts. Similarly, ITS1 amplicon pyrosequencing identified developmental changes in the most abundant fungal classes from Sordariomycetes in adult pandas to Saccharomycetes in geriatric pandas. Geriatric pandas exhibited significantly higher abundance of a potential probiotic fungus (Candida tropicalis) as compared to adult pandas, indicating their importance in the normal digestive physiology of aged pandas. Our study also reported the presence of a lignocellulolytic white-rot fungus, Perenniporia medulla-panis, and the evidence of novel homoacetogens residing in the guts of giant pandas.
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