Yearly variation coupled with social interactions shape the skin microbiome in free-ranging rhesus macaques

ABSTRACT While skin microbes are known to mediate human health and disease, there has been minimal research on the interactions between skin microbiota, social behavior, and year-to-year effects in non-human primates—important animal models for translational biomedical research. To examine these rel...

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Main Authors: Christina E. Roche, Michael J. Montague, JiCi Wang, Allison N. Dickey, Angelina Ruiz-Lambides, Lauren J. N. Brent, Michael L. Platt, Julie E. Horvath
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2023-10-01
Series:Microbiology Spectrum
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.02974-23