Human footprints in the gut: how anthropogenic environments reshape the microbiome of chacma baboons
Celia Lacomme, Aluwani Ramaru, Benjamin Rey, Franck Prugnolle, Laure Ségurel, Virginie Rougeron
This study examines how different anthropogenic environments affect the gut microbiome of chacma baboons, finding reduced diversity and compositional shifts in human-altered areas, but distinct patterns in cultivated regions.
bioRxiv · Jun 12, 2026 · PreprintEcology