Red-Shanked Douc (IMAGE)

University of Minnesota

Red-Shanked Douc

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To better understand how changes in diet, lifestyle, and exposure to modern medicine affect primates' guts, a team of researchers used DNA sequencing to study the gut microbes of multiple non-human primates species, including the highly endangered red-shanked douc.

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College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota

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