Comparative analysis of the gut microbiome of ungulate species from Qinghai-Xizang plateau.

Several studies have investigated the gut bacterial composition of wild ungulates in the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau. However, the relationship between their gut microbiome dendrograms and their phylogenetic tree remains unclear. In this study, we analyzed 45 amplicons (V3-V4 region of the 16S rRNA gene) from five wild ungulates-, , , , and -from the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau to clarify the relationship between their phylogenies and gut microbiome dendrograms.