User:Snowr23/Yellow baboon

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Yellow baboons have been studied extensively due to their highly social natures, which has led researchers to believe that their social habits play a role in the composition of the microbiome of their digestive system. A group of researchers studied this unique correlation and found that social group membership and interaction do affect the microbiome composition (Tung et al., 2015). Another group dove deeper into these findings and found that not only was Tung et al. correct in their findings, but there is evidence that male dispersal will affect the gut microbiome of the local population (Grieneisen et al., 2017).

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One area of active research on yellow baboons is that their social habits play a role in the composition of their gut microbiome. One group of researchers found that social group membership and interaction affect microbiome composition through methods of intimate grooming periods, which includes times of accidental fecal-oral transmission, even though yellow baboons are not coprophagic. The accidental fecal-oral transmission could be a pathway that certain microbes, that are non-spore forming, use for transmission. Another group found evidence that male dispersal will affect the gut microbiome of the immigrant individual. The immigrant male may acquire a similar gut microbiome through dietary changes and being introduced to new microbes through social interactions, such as grooming, which lead to more direct transmission methods.