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A multi-disciplinary comparison of great ape gut microbiota in a central African forest and European zoo.
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- Meeting report of the seventh annual Tri-Service Microbiome Consortium Symposium.BMC proceedings · 2024Article
- Higher convergence of human-great ape enteric eukaryotic viromes in central African forest than in a European zoo: a One Health analysis.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Multiomics characterisation of the zoo-housed gorilla gut microbiome reveals bacterial community compositions shifts, fungal cellulose-degrading, and archaeal methanogenic activity.Gut microbiome (Cambridge, England) · 2023Article
- Changes in Gut Microbiota Composition Associated with the Presence of Enteric ProtistMicrobiology spectrum · 2022Article
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- Gut microbiota of ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) vary across natural and captive populations and correlate with environmental microbiota.Animal microbiome · 2022Article
- Host species and habitats shape the bacterial community of gut microbiota of three non-human primates: Siamangs, white-handed gibbons, and Bornean orangutans.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
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- Host Identity and Geographic Location Significantly Affect Gastrointestinal Microbial Richness and Diversity in Western Lowland Gorillas (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
- Predictable and host-species specific humanization of the gut microbiota in captive primates.Molecular ecology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Comparisons of mammalian gut microbiota across different environmental conditions shed light on the diversity and composition of gut bacteriome and suggest consequences for human and animal health. Gut bacteriome comparisons across different environments diverge in their results, showing no generalizable patterns linking habitat and dietary degradation with bacterial diversity. The challenge in drawing general conclusions from such studies lies in the broad terms describing diverse habitats ("wild", "captive", "pristine"). We conducted 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequencing to characterize intestinal microbiota of free-ranging sympatric chimpanzees and gorillas in southeastern Cameroon and sympatric chimpanzees and gorillas in a European zoo. We conducted participant-observation and semi-structured interviews among people living near these great apes to understand better their feeding habits and habitats. Unexpectedly, bacterial diversity (ASV, Faith PD and Shannon) was higher among zoo gorillas than among those in the Cameroonian forest, but zoo and Cameroonian chimpanzees showed no difference. Phylogeny was a strong driver of species-specific microbial composition. Surprisingly, zoo gorilla microbiota more closely resembled that of zoo chimpanzees than of Cameroonian gorillas. Zoo living conditions and dietary similarities may explain these results. We encourage multidisciplinary approach integrating environmental sampling and anthropological evaluation to characterize better diverse environmental conditions of such investigations.
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