Gut microbiome composition and metabolomic profiles of wild western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) reflect host ecology

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2551-2565

  Gomez, Andres ^a   Petrzelkova, Klara ^b,c,d,e   Yeoman, Carl J ^f   Vlckova, Klara ^c   Mrázek, Jakub ^g   Koppova, Ingrid ^g   Carbonero, Franck ^h   Ulanov, Alexander ^a   Modry, David ^d,i   Todd, Angelique ^j   Torralba, Manolito ^k   Nelson, Karen E ^k   Gaskins, H Rex ^a   Wilson, Brenda ^a   Stumpf, Rebecca M ^a   White, Bryan A ^a   Leigh, Steven R ^a,l  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

^d INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^e Liberec Zoo   (Czech Republic)

^f MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

ⁱ CENTRAL EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^j World Wildlife Fund   (Central African Republic)

^k J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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Author keywords

anthropogenic interactions; foraging ecology; metabolomics; microbiome; western lowland gorillas

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GORILLA GORILLA GORILLA; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

BACTERIAL DNA; FATTY ACID;

ANIMAL; CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC; CHEMISTRY; DIET; FECES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; GORILLA; METABOLOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC; DIET; DNA, BACTERIAL; FATTY ACIDS; FECES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHY; GORILLA GORILLA; METABOLOMICS; MICROBIOTA;

EID: 84928322620     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.13181     Document Type: Article

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