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Despite concerted efforts to improve the conservation status of Asian primates,conditions in their natural habitats continue to worsen. As a result, captive breeding programs may become increasingly important to ensure species survival. Nevertheless, maintaining healthy captive populations of Asian primates can be difficult, particularly for primates of the Colobinae subfamily that commonly suffer from morbidity and mortality due to gastrointestinal (GI) distress of unknown cause. While there is speculation that this GI distress may be associated with a dysbiosis of the gut microbiota, no study has directly examined the role of the gut microbiota in colobine GI health. Hi Seq data |