Social behavior of musk deer during the mating season potentially influences the diversity of their gut microbiome

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Microbiology

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Introduction

Materials and Methods

The study area and sample collection

16S rRNA gene sequencing and analysis

Results and Discussion

The composition of captive musk deer

The significant effect of breeding regions on the alpha diversity of the musk deer

Social behavior of musk deer during the mating season potentially contributes to the gut microbiome dissimilarity among the breeding regions in the same center

Conclusion

Additional Information and Declarations

Competing Interests

Guoqi Liu is employed by Mingke Biotechnology Co., Ltd. and Zhu Chen is employed by Sichuan Snail and Tree Education Technology Col, Ltd. The authors declare there are no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Jianmei Li performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Wei Luo, Yudong Zhu, Qinlong Dai and Guoqi Liu performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, and approved the final draft.

Chengli Zheng, Lei Zhou, Jianming Wang and Dayong Feng performed the experiments, prepared figures and/or tables, and approved the final draft.

Shengqiang Li, Zhu Chen and Kunlin Yang analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, and approved the final draft.

Zhisong Yang conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Lifeng Zhu conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Data Availability

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

The raw data of 16s RNA gene sequences are available at NCBI: PRJNA665181.

Funding

This study is supported by the project on the ecological research of the translocated Musk deer in Sichuan. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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