ArticleThe ISME journal2020
Natural diets promote retention of the native gut microbiota in captive rodents.
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- Gut Microbial Community and Host Thermoregulation in Small Mammals.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Pooled it
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- Effects of environmental setting and diet on the gut microbial ecology of eastern hellbenders (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis).Animal microbiome · 2026Article
- Grass supplementation to a pellet-based diet fails to enrich gut microbiomes with wild-like functions in captive-bred hares.Microbiology spectrum · 2026Article
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- A Comparison of the Intestinal Fungal Community in Wild and Captive Himalayan Vultures (Polish journal of microbiology · 2025Article
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- Uropygial gland microbiota of nearctic-neotropical migrants vary with season and migration distance.Animal microbiome · 2025Article
- Editorial: Gut microbiota's role in high-altitude animal adaptation.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Purified fibers in chemically defined synthetic diets destabilize the gut microbiome of an omnivorous insect model.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
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- Purified fibers in chemically defined synthetic diets destabilize the gut microbiome of an omnivorous insect model.Frontiers in microbiomes · 2024Article
- Captivity conditions matter for the gut microbiota of an endangered obligate hibernator.Conservation physiology · 2024Article
- Metagenomic comparison of gut communities between wild and captive Himalayan griffons.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2024Article
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Abstract
Wild animals entering captivity experience radical lifestyle changes resulting in microbiome alterations. However, little is known about the factors that drive microbial community shifts in captivity, and what actions could mitigate microbial changes. Using white-throated woodrats (Neotoma albigula), we tested whether offering natural diets in captivity facilitates retention of native microbial communities of captive animals. Wild-caught woodrats were brought to laboratory conditions. Woodrats received either a natural diet of Opuntia cactus or an artificial diet of commercial chow over three weeks. Microbial inventories from woodrat feces at the time of capture and in captivity were generated using Illumina 16S rRNA sequencing. We found that providing woodrats with wild-natural diets significantly mitigated alterations in their microbiota, promoting a 90% retention of native microbial communities across the experiment. In contrast, the artificial diet significantly impacted microbial structure to the extent that 38% of the natural microflora was lost. Core bacteria including Bifidobacterium and Allobaculum were lost, and abundances of microbes related to oxalate degradation decreased in individuals fed artificial but not natural diets. These results highlight the importance of supplementing captive diets with natural foods to maintain native microbiomes of animals kept in artificial conditions for scientific or conservation purposes.
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