Evaluating different extraction solvents for GC-MS based metabolomic analysis of the fecal metabolome of adult and baby giant pandas

Abstract The gut microbiome plays a fundamental role in host health and the fecal metabolome can be analysed to assess microbial activity and can be used as an intermediate phenotype monitoring the host-microbiome relationship. However, there is no established extraction protocol to study the fecal...

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Main Authors: Yang Yang, Yanqiang Yin, Xuyang Chen, Chang Chen, Yinyin Xia, Hongbo Qi, Philip N. Baker, Hua Zhang, Ting-Li Han
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-08-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-48453-1