Captivity and the co-diversification of great ape microbiomes

Here the authors sequence 16S rRNA and the more variable gyrase B protein-coding gene to profile the gut microbiome of captive great apes, which together with analysis of wild apes and humans, reveal a displacement of bacterial strains normally restricted to their wild conspecifics with those that a...

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Main Authors: Alex H. Nishida, Howard Ochman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25732-y