Fecal microbial diversity and putative function in captive western lowland gorillas(Gorilla gorilla gorilla),common chimpanzees(Pan troglodytes),Hamadryas baboons(Papio hamadryas)and binturongs(Arctictis binturong)

作     者：Erin A.McKENNEY Melissa ASHWELL Joanna E.LAMBERT Vivek FELLNER 

作者机构：Department of Animal SciencesNorth Carolina State UniversityRaleighNorth CarolinaUSA Department of AnthropologyThe University of Texas at San AntonioTexasUSA 

出 版 物：《Integrative Zoology》 (整合动物学（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2014年第9卷第5期

页      面：557-569页

核心收录：

学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 07[理学] 0905[农学-畜牧学] 0906[农学-兽医学] 071002[理学-动物学] 

基　　金：Animal Science Department at North Carolina State University 

主　　题：ecology fermentation gastrointestinal microbiota microbial diversity 

摘      要：Microbial populations in the gastrointestinal tract contribute to host health and *** gut microbial ecology is well studied in livestock and domestic animals,little is known of the endogenous populations inhab­iting primates or *** characterized microbial populations in fecal cultures from gorillas(Gorilla go­rilla gorilla),common chimpanzees(Pan troglodytes),Hamadryas baboons(Papio hamadryas)and binturongs(Arctictis binturong)to compare the microbiomes associated with different gastrointestinal morphologies and different omnivorous feeding *** species was fed a distinct standardized diet for 2 weeks prior to fecal *** diets were formulated to reflect the species’feeding strategies in *** fecal samples were pooled within species and used to inoculate in vitro batch ***,propionate,butyrate and val­erate were measured after 24 h of *** DNA was extracted from individual fecal samples,pooled,and the cpn60 gene region was amplified and then sequenced to identify the major eubacterial constit­uents associated with each host *** chain fatty acids(P0.001)and methane(P0.001)were sig­nificantly different across *** profiles were consistent with fermentation data and suggest an in­crease in diversity with dietary fiber.