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Captivity and the co-diversification of great ape microbiomes.
Nature communications - 24 Sept 2021
Nishida Alex H, Ochman Howard
Abstract excerpt
Wild great apes harbor clades of gut bacteria that are restricted to each host species. Previous research shows the evolutionary relationships among several host-restricted clades mirror those of great-ape species. However, processes such as geographic separation, host-shift speciation, and host-filtering based on diet or gut physiology can generate host-restricted bacterial clades and mimic patterns of...
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