Article
Impacts of Captive Domestication and Geographical Divergence on the Gut Microbiome of Endangered Forest Musk Deer
2025-06-05
Abstract excerpt
Forest musk deer (Moschus berezovskii), one of the world's most endangered ruminants, faces extinction risks, with captive populations additionally threatened by prevalent diseases including digestive and immune disorders. This study employed comparative metagenomic sequencing to analyze intestinal microbiota structure and function between wild populations in Chongqing and Hunan and captive individuals. Wild...
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- Literature Corpus work
- d5a8c359-a76a-5914-b673-45c33ef58a1e
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202506.0393.v1
