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Microbiology
Alberto Scoma, Way Cern Khor, Marta Coma, Robert Heyer, Ruben Props, Tim Bouts, Dirk Benndorf, Desheng Li, Hemin Zhang, Korneel Rabaey
Summary: The gut microbiome of giant pandas plays a significant role in their nutrition by helping with digestion processes, and experimental results show that green leaves are mainly fermented into ethanol while yellow pith is mainly fermented into lactate. Further research is needed to understand the effects of pH, dung samples, fermentation products, and bamboo supply on pandas.
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Microbiology
Mingye Zhan, Aishan Wang, Yong Yao, Yingmin Zhou, Shu Zhang, Xiaohua Fu, Jun Zhou, Enle Pei, Lei Wang
Summary: A systematic study has clarified the issue of giant panda's digestion of bamboo cellulose through digestive enzymes, functional genes, and microbial structures. Giant pandas are trying to digest cellulose in bamboo, but this adaptation is incomplete, possibly due to their short straight carnivore-like gut structure.
FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Wancai Xia, Guoqi Liu, Dali Wang, Hua Chen, Lifeng Zhu, Dayong Li
Summary: The gut microbiomes of wild Yunnan snub-nosed monkeys displayed significant differences between populations that relied on wild-foraging and those that were regularly supplemented with human provisioned food. The wild-foraging population had a gut microbiome enriched in genes involved in detoxification and digestion, while the food provisioned population had a gut microbiome enriched in genes involved in carbohydrate metabolism. The gut microbiome of the wild-foraging population shared functional similarities with the gut microbiome of wild bamboo-eating pandas.
COMPUTATIONAL AND STRUCTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL
(2022)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Wei Guo, Ke Ren, Ruihong Ning, Caiwu Li, Yu Zhang, Yunong Gan, Xiaoyan Fu, Cenjun Xiao, Yaoyu Pang, Lei Cheng, Siyuan Zhang, Desheng Li, Jiangchao Zhao, Min Dai, Ying Li
Summary: The gut microbiome of giant pandas plays an important role in nutrient acquisition from their specialized bamboo diet. The gut microbiota of panda cubs is significantly different from that of adult pandas, and microbial transmission from mother to infant has been suggested as a seeding source for the infant's gut microbiota.
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Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Le Wang, Rizhi Ding, Yuanhao Zhai, Qilin Zhang, Wei Tang, Nanning Zheng, Gang Hua
Summary: The lack of automatic tools to identify giant pandas makes it difficult to manage them in wildlife conservation missions. In this paper, a new Giant Panda Identification (GPID) task is introduced, along with a benchmark dataset iPanda-50. The proposed Feature-Fusion Network with Patch Detector (FFN-PD) significantly outperforms existing methods, demonstrating its effectiveness in identifying individual giant pandas based on images.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON IMAGE PROCESSING
(2021)
Article
Microbiology
Juan Lu, Haoning Wang, Chunmei Wang, Min Zhao, Rong Hou, Quan Shen, Shixing Yang, Likai Ji, Yuwei Liu, Xiaochun Wang, Songrui Liu, Tongling Shan, Wen Zhang
Summary: This study analyzed the gut phageome of giant pandas and compared it with other relevant species. The results showed that giant pandas possess a more diverse and abundant gut phageome. Phylogenetic analysis revealed highly genetic diversity of Caudovirales phages in giant pandas. This research contributes to the understanding of phage diversity and lays the foundation for molecular evolution studies of bacteriophages in mammals.
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Nutrition & Dietetics
Hsien-Yu Fan, Yu-Tang Tung, Yu-Chen S. H. Yang, Justin BoKai Hsu, Cheng-Yang Lee, Tzu-Hao Chang, Emily Chia-Yu Su, Rong-Hong Hsieh, Yang-Ching Chen
Summary: Maternal nutrition intake during pregnancy may affect mother-to-child transmission of bacteria, leading to changes in offspring gut microbiota; with high or low fruit and vegetable intake during pregnancy being associated with distinct changes in infant gut microbiota at 2 months of age. Increasing fruit and vegetable consumption during pregnancy could be a strategy for modifying early-life gut microbiota.
Article
Ecology
Dong Chen, Xuelin Jin, Ximing Zhang, Qifeng Zhu, Zhifeng Zhang, Simin Hu, Yongxin Chen, Qingxia Zhao
Summary: Simply planting bamboo and trees is not enough for giant panda habitat restoration. Planting should be done on suitable open forest lands, but the area available for afforestation is limited. Natural regrowth on cut-over lands needs management, not replanting. Nonnative larch plantations should be replaced with native trees and bamboos, and bamboo forests in the mid-high mountain zones need assessment and restoration. New policies are needed to allow thinning or cutting of these plantations.
RESTORATION ECOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Chenglin Zhu, Xin Pan, Guo Li, Caiwu Li, Daifu Wu, Junni Tang, Yan Huang, Likou Zou, Luca Laghi
Summary: Lipidic metabolites play essential roles in the physiological health and growth performance of giant pandas. Bamboo, as their main diet, determines the lipidome of giant pandas. This study explores the lipidomic atlas of different parts of bamboo and investigates the changes in fecal and serum lipidome during the consumption of bamboo shoots, which is typical in spring. The findings suggest the importance of a balanced diet for giant panda health, even in the case of a single food-based diet.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ossi Nokelainen, Nicholas E. Scott-Samuel, Yonggang Nie, Fuwen Wei, Tim Caro
Summary: The black-and-white coloration of giant pandas provides camouflage in their natural environment, with black fur blending into dark shades and white fur matching foliage and snow. The results are consistent across different vision models, showing that the coloration is an adaptation for background matching and distance-dependent disruptive coloration.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Microbiology
Kuanguan Huang, Jie Wang, Junhao Huang, Shouke Zhang, Alfried P. Vogler, Quanquan Liu, Yongchun Li, Maowei Yang, You Li, Xuguo Zhou
Summary: In this study, gut microbiota of bamboo-feeding insects were examined to understand their convergent adaptation to extreme diet specialization. Results showed that while both phylogeny and diet can influence the gut microbiome composition, phylogeny primarily drives the convergent adaptation to a highly specialized diet in insects feeding on bamboo.
FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Zahra A. Barandouzi, Joochul Lee, Kendra Maas, Angela R. Starkweather, Xiaomei S. Cong
Summary: The study compared food components and gut microbiota patterns between IBS patients and healthy controls, finding higher alpha diversity indices and altered gut microbiota in IBS patients. High microbial diversity and alterations in gut microbiota composition were observed in IBS individuals with high caffeine consumption, suggesting a potential link between caffeine intake and gut microbiome patterns.
JOURNAL OF PERSONALIZED MEDICINE
(2021)
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Environmental Sciences
Dong Zhu, Lu Lu, Zejun Zhang, Dunwu Qi, Mingchun Zhang, Patrick O'Connor, Fuwen Wei, Yong-Guan Zhu
Summary: This study reveals the presence of diverse protists in the giant panda gut microbiome, with their population abundance closely related to the age and diet of the pandas. Diet plays a key role in driving variation in antibiotic resistance genes in the giant panda gut microbiome.
ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL
(2021)
Article
Biology
Guangping Huang, Xiao Wang, Yibo Hu, Qi Wu, Yonggang Nie, Jiuhong Dong, Yun Ding, Li Yan, Fuwen Wei
Summary: The gut microbiota plays a critical role in host physiology and health, with factors such as diet and phylogeny shaping its structure. By comparing the gut microbiota of giant and red pandas with their carnivorous relatives, it was found that the specialized herbivorous diet is the dominant driver of gut microbiome convergence within Arctoidea. This diet-driven convergence suggests new insights into the host-microbiota coevolution of these endangered species.
SCIENCE CHINA-LIFE SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science
Ying Yao, Wenjia Zhao, Guilin Xiang, Ruiqing Lv, Yanpeng Dong, Honglin Yan, Mingxi Li
Summary: Bamboo part preference and age have significant effects on nutrient digestibility and fecal microbiota composition in giant pandas. Bamboo shoot consumption increases protein digestibility and changes the composition of gut microbiota. However, the effects of bamboo part consumption on geriatric giant pandas remain unclear.
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Environmental Sciences
Wenwen Deng, Anyun Zhang, Shujuan Chen, Xueping He, Lei Jin, Xiumei Yu, Shengzhi Yang, Bei Li, Liangqian Fan, Lin Ji, Xin Pan, Likou Zou
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2020)
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Environmental Sciences
Ju Gu, Xian-Jun Xie, Jin-Xin Liu, Jun-Rui Shui, Hao-Yu Zhang, Gan-Yu Feng, Xiao-Yu Liu, Lin-Can Li, Qi-Wei Lan, Qi-Han Jin, Rui Li, Li Peng, Chang-Wei Lei, An-Yun Zhang
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2020)
Article
Immunology
Ping Li, Xiuzhong Zhang, Xianjun Xie, Zunfang Tu, Ju Gu, Anyun Zhang
MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS
(2020)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Jinxin Liu, Feng Yu, Douglas R. Call, David A. Mills, Anyun Zhang, Zhe Zhao
Summary: Exposure to antibiotic-treated animals had a direct impact on the soil microbiome and resistome, leading to significant increases in antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs) in the exposed soil. Evaluating on-farm effects to soil after exposure to antibiotic-treated animals can help in designing effective management strategies to mitigate antibiotic resistance in food-animal production.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Article
Food Science & Technology
Yu-Ting Wang, Chang-Wei Lei, Si-Yi Liu, Xuan Chen, Yu-Feng Gao, Yu Zhang, Yizhi Tang, Anyun Zhang, Xin Yang, Hong-Ning Wang
Summary: The research utilized WGS to track the transmission of Salmonella enterica in the production chain of broiler chickens. The study found higher isolation rates of Salmonella in different breeding and slaughtering steps, with Mbandaka serotype being the most prevalent. WGS and sequence type analysis indicated clonal transmission of Mbandaka, Indiana, and Kentucky serotypes between broiler farms and slaughterhouses.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD MICROBIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Microbiology
Zunfang Tu, Ju Gu, Haoyu Zhang, Jinxin Liu, Junrui Shui, Anyun Zhang
Summary: The study found that the withdrawal of colistin reduced the incidence of IncX4-type plasmids carrying the mcr-1 gene, but had limited effects on unrelated antibiotic resistance genes.
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Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Xueran Mei, Boheng Ma, Xiwen Zhai, Anyun Zhang, Changwei Lei, Lei Zuo, Xin Yang, Changyu Zhou, Hongning Wang
Summary: Florfenicol administration significantly increased the loads of S. Enteritidis in cecal contents, spleen, and liver in neonatal chickens, affecting cecal colony structures and linoleic acid metabolism. The altered microbiota and metabolome by florfenicol mainly promote Salmonella infection through linoleic acid metabolism.
APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Microbiology
Shengzhi Yang, Yu Liu, Nan Yang, Yue Lan, Weiqi Lan, Jinyi Feng, Bisong Yue, Miao He, Liang Zhang, Anyun Zhang, Megan Price, Jing Li, Zhenxin Fan
Summary: The gut microbiome and resistome of chronic diarrhea rhesus macaques (RMs) were found to differ significantly from asymptomatic individuals. There was a depletion of Lactobacillus spp. and an increase in mucin-degrading bacteria and opportunistic pathogens in the guts of chronic diarrhea RMs. The metabolic pathways of chronic diarrhea RMs were enriched in aerobactin biosynthesis, while those of asymptomatic RMs were enriched in the production of short-chain fatty acids.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Junrui Shui, Hongmei Tuo, Jinxin Liu, Xialan Zhang, Jingyi Feng, Yuxuan Feng, Wen Su, Cong Lin, Haoyu Zhang, Zunfang Tu, Hongning Wang, Anyun Zhang
Summary: Swine manure treatment plants are important reservoirs of plasmid-harboring antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and physicochemical contaminants. This study revealed the changes in plasmid and ARG abundances, as well as their interactions with the physicochemical properties of manure during the treatment process. The findings showed that anaerobic and aerobic digestion were the most effective stages for reducing ARG abundance, but plasmids associated with ARGs were not effectively removed. Additionally, pH, total nitrogen, total phosphorus, and certain heavy metals significantly affected the abundance of ARG subtypes.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Veterinary Sciences
Xuehuai Shen, Anyun Zhang, Ju Gu, Ruihong Zhao, Xiaocheng Pan, Yin Dai, Lei Yin, Qinghe Zhang, Xiaomiao Hu, Hongning Wang, Danjun Zhang
Summary: This study systematically evaluated the dissemination of S. pullorum in internal organs and bacterial fecal shedding patterns, as well as antibody production in infected chickens. The study found that chickens of different ages have different responses to S. pullorum infection and revealed a high risk of horizontal transmission of S. pullorum.
BMC VETERINARY RESEARCH
(2022)
Editorial Material
Microbiology
Gerson Nakazato, Helia Magaly Bello-Toledo, Anyun Zhang, Eliana Guedes Stehling
FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Zunfang Tu, Junrui Shui, Jinxin Liu, Hongmei Tuo, Haoyu Zhang, Cong Lin, Jingyi Feng, Yuxuan Feng, Wen Su, Anyun Zhang
Summary: This study investigates the prevalence and influencing factors of antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs) originated from plasmids in swine manure in China. The results show that all tested ARGs are present in plasmid DNA samples, and the abundance of ARGs in plasmid DNA is influenced by antibiotics, heavy metals, and environmental nutrients.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Microbiology
Xuehuai Shen, Lei Yin, Anyun Zhang, Ruihong Zhao, Dongdong Yin, Jieru Wang, Yin Dai, Hongyan Hou, Xiaocheng Pan, Xiaomiao Hu, Danjun Zhang, Yongjie Liu
Summary: The prevalence, antimicrobial resistance, and molecular characteristics of Salmonella in poultry in Anhui, China were investigated. The study found a high prevalence of Salmonella infection in chickens, with high rates of resistance to certain antibiotics. The presence of virulence genes in the isolates also poses a potential threat to public health security.
Article
Infectious Diseases
Chang-wen Xu, Xue Zhou, Xia-lan Zhang, Quan Zhou, Hao-xuan Qi, Yun-xia Li, Shi-chun Liu, An-yun Zhang
Summary: This study aimed to characterize the whole genome sequence of multidrug-resistant Streptococcus pluranimalium strain SP21-2 of swine origin in China. Illumina Miseq and Nanopore PromethION platforms were used for genome sequencing, and Rapid Annotation using Subsystem Technology (RAST) was used for genome annotation. The study identified various antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs) in the strain, including the newly discovered optrA and lsa(E) genes. The findings provide important references for understanding the transfer mechanisms of ARGs in S. pluranimalium.
JOURNAL OF GLOBAL ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE
(2023)