Are the gut microbial systems of giant pandas unstable?

Are the gut microbial systems of giant pandas unstable?

Animals have stable dominant gut microbiomes under similar diets. Similar diets can also lead to similar gut microbial communities within host species levels. Giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) and red pandas (Ailurus fulgens) have had long-term and stable bamboo diets, and seem well adapted to t...

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Main Authors: Ran Yao, Zhisong Yang, Zheng Zhang, Ting Hu, Hua Chen, Feng Huang, Xiaodong Gu, Xuyu Yang, Guoqing Lu, Lifeng Zhu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-09-01
Series:Heliyon
Subjects:
Microbiology
Adaptation
Population dynamics
Bacteria
Genome sequencing
High-throughput sequencing
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844019361407

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