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Pygmy Loris Fecal Microbiome

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The pygmy loris (Nycticebus pygmaeus) is a small rare nocturnal prosimian primate found mainly in Vietnam, Laos, and China. Being nocturnal, the prosimians are less known than other primates, but are nonetheless important.

Previous studies have proven that the microbiomes of nonhuman primates (NHPs) exhibit a much higher similarity with those of primates than with other animals (Ley et al. 2008). Therefore, the study of the microbiota from these NHPs provides important insights into the reflection of their features in humans. However, only a few reported culture-independent studies on fecal microbiota of nonhuman primates are available, leading to limited comparative data on the intestinal microbiota of primates, either in captivity or in the wild. More extensive surveys of primate gastrointestinal microbiomes, particularly prosimian primates, about which little research work has been done, combined with comparative analyses of their microbiomes with those of humans are necessary to...

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  1. Engineering Research Center of Sustainable Development and Utilization of Biomass Energy, Ministry of Education, Kunming, 650500, China

    Zunxi Huang

  2. School of Life Science, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, China

    Bo Xu, Weijiang Xu, Junjun Li, Xianghua Tang, Yunjuan Yang, Yuelin Mu, Junpei Zhou, Junmei Ding & Zunxi Huang

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Xu, B. et al. (2015). Pygmy Loris Fecal Microbiome. In: Highlander, S.K., Rodriguez-Valera, F., White, B.A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Metagenomics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7475-4_631

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