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ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2026

Microbial diversity of camel milk production environments in Xinjiang, China: a full-length 16S rRNA survey of farm environmental matrices across Altay and Hami regions.

Yating Wu, Shuai Wang, Xianlan Ma, Xiaoxiao Lou, Nan Zheng, Wei Shao, Lu Meng, He Chen, Cheng Wang, Yankun Zhao

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Yating Wu *Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs-Laboratory of Quality and Safety Risk Assessment for Agro-Products, Agricultural Product Quality and Safety Risk Assessment Laboratory, Institute of Quality Standards and Testing Technology for Agro-Products, Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Urumqi, China.
Shuai Wang *Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs-Laboratory of Quality and Safety Risk Assessment for Agro-Products, Agricultural Product Quality and Safety Risk Assessment Laboratory, Institute of Quality Standards and Testing Technology for Agro-Products, Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Urumqi, China.
Xianlan MaMinistry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs-Laboratory of Quality and Safety Risk Assessment for Agro-Products, Agricultural Product Quality and Safety Risk Assessment Laboratory, Institute of Quality Standards and Testing Technology for Agro-Products, Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Urumqi, China.
Xiaoxiao LouMinistry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs-Laboratory of Quality and Safety Risk Assessment for Agro-Products, Agricultural Product Quality and Safety Risk Assessment Laboratory, Institute of Quality Standards and Testing Technology for Agro-Products, Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Urumqi, China.
Nan ZhengKey Laboratory for Quality and Safety Control for Milk and Dairy Products of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Beijing, China.
Wei ShaoXinjiang Meat and Milk Herbivore Nutrition Laboratory, College of Animal Science, Xinjiang Agricultural University, Urumqi, China.
Lu MengKey Laboratory for Quality and Safety Control for Milk and Dairy Products of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Beijing, China.
He ChenMinistry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs-Laboratory of Quality and Safety Risk Assessment for Agro-Products, Agricultural Product Quality and Safety Risk Assessment Laboratory, Institute of Quality Standards and Testing Technology for Agro-Products, Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Urumqi, China.
Cheng WangMinistry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs-Laboratory of Quality and Safety Risk Assessment for Agro-Products, Agricultural Product Quality and Safety Risk Assessment Laboratory, Institute of Quality Standards and Testing Technology for Agro-Products, Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Urumqi, China.
Yankun ZhaoMinistry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs-Laboratory of Quality and Safety Risk Assessment for Agro-Products, Agricultural Product Quality and Safety Risk Assessment Laboratory, Institute of Quality Standards and Testing Technology for Agro-Products, Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Urumqi, China.

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Introduction: Camel milk production in Xinjiang, China is predominantly managed under extensive pastoral systems, yet the taxonomic and functional profiles of key production-associated environmental matrices remain poorly characterized. Methods: This study employed PacBio Single-Molecule Real-Time (SMRT) full-length 16S rRNA gene sequencing to characterize microbial communities across five environmental matrices (bedding, feces, teat skin, feed, and soil) from camel breeding farms in the Altay and Hami regions of Xinjiang. Results: After removing chloroplast and mitochondrial sequences, the dominant phyla across all samples were Discussion: This study establishes a foundational baseline of the camel farm environmental microbiome in Xinjiang, informing targeted hygiene interventions and future studies investigating environmental contributions to raw camel milk quality. A key limitation is the absence of raw milk samples, precluding direct inference of microbial transmission routes to milk.

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microbial diversityproduction environmentraw camel milksingle-molecule real-time sequencingsource tracking

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