Happy to see one of the final chapters of my PhD out now! π΅π¦ We identified key covariates of the bonobo gut microbiome, including ecology, diet, transit time, social interactions and maternal vertical transmission within a large cohort of wild and zoo-housed bonobos.
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Many thanks to all co-authors on this project for their contributions! Thanks to @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social for the main funding for this project, the Zoo Antwerp Centre for Research and Conservation and the @uantwerpen.be for the support, and all of the zoos for their participation in the project!
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π©βπΌ Bonobos were also more similar to their mother than to other closely related bonobos in terms of their microbiomes - even when not living in the same group anymore, indicating an important contribution of vertical transmission on shaping the bonobo gut bacteriome.
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π«Within the zoo-housed population, we found large effects of grooming on gut bacteriome similarity within group members - larger than the effects of spatial sharing in the enclosure, dyadic tenure, or kinship effects.
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π΄ Diet, age, medication use, seasonality, gut transit time and early life adversity were important contributors to gut bacteriome variation.
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Stack-plots of the 9 most abundant genera in the bonobo gut bacteriome, showing high prevalence and abundance of the genus Prevotella overall.
π΄Sample collection was standardized over the entire cohort, allowing us to reliably detect a shift in composition and decrease in diversity in the zoo compared to the wild. Prevotella was the most prevalent gut bacteriome genus, found in all bonobos, but occurring in higher abundance in the wild.
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π© We built 644 gut bacteriome profiles from fresh fecal samples of 212 bonobos, including two wild communities at the LuiKotale field site in the DRC and the entire European zoo-housed population (11 different zoos). Without their support, this study would not have been possible!
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Happy to share the publication of the keystone chapter of my PhD: "A comprehensive atlas of the bonobo gut bacteriome and its associated host and exposome factors" in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social π©π¦ π΅
π Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
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PhD in human paleobiology from GWU | primate behavioral ecology | Looking for post doc and teaching positions!
Disease ecology lab at Arizona State University led by Dr. India Schneider-Crease studying geladas, kinda baboons, their parasites, & more! ππ¦ π¬πͺ±
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I hang out with pumpkin toadlets and study the effects of climate change on amphibian skin microbiomes and disease.
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Research project on the social behaviour of geladas in Ethiopia (PI: Elisabetta Palagi; co-PI: Bezawork Afework). Follow our scientific and social journey!
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Social and reproductive behavior of chimpanzees and others
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Microbial Ecologist. Host-microbe ecological and evolutionary interactions|Community ecology. Working onπ»ββοΈlongitudinal microbiome/virome at π¨π¦UBC Zoology with @kayla-king.bsky.social, PhD π¬π§Oxford Zoology, BS π¨π³NPU. Part-time childrenβs book writer. She/Hers.
