TY  - JOUR
T1  - Characterization of Bacterial Diversity in Captive Giant Panda Feces During the Diet Conversion Period
AU - Peng, Guangneng AU - Ai, Shengquan AU - Fu, Hualin AU - Shen, Liuhong AU - Cao, Suizhong AU - Zhang, Hemin AU - Ren, Zhihua AU - Xie, Bingbing AU - Xu, Xiaoyang AU - Zhou, Xiaoxiao AU - Li, Gangshi AU - Zhong, Zhijun AU - Tang, Tianliang AU - Zhou, Zhiyao AU - Wang, Fangyuan AU - Gu, Wuyang AU - He, Tingmei AU - Li, Desheng AU - Liu, Xuehan AU - Wang, Chengdong AU - Yang, Yang AU - Luo, Yongjiu 
JO  - Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances
VL  - 12
IS  - 20
SP  - 1541
EP  - 1549
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1680-5593
DO  - javaa.2013.1541.1549
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=javaa.2013.1541.1549
KW  - Giant panda
KW  -diet conversion period
KW  -bacterial diversity
KW  -feces
KW  -streptococcus
AB  - The diet conversion period (1-1.5 years) is a special time 
  for the giant panda. During this period, giant pandas need to adapt from a high-protein 
  diet to highly fibrous bamboo as their main food and form a special digestive 
  system that will digest cellulose and hemicellulose. Previous studies have shown 
  that diet alterations affect intestinal microbiota composition and host resistance. 
  Intestinal microbiotas play a key role in the giant panda’s ability to 
  digest highly fibrous bamboo. In this study, researchers constructed a <I>16S 
  rRNA</I> gene library from three giant pandas&#146; feces to investigate the 
  diversity and structure of its bacterial population during the diet conversion 
  period. Results showed that the diversity of intestinal bacteria during the 
  earlier and later diet conversion periods is higher than at the middle diet 
  conversion period. Intestinal floras within the giant panda gut were affiliated 
  with the phyla Firmicutes, Proteobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Fusobacteria and uncultured 
  bacterium. The phyla Firmicutes and Proteobacteria were the predominant bacteria 
  throughout diet conversion although their proportions fluctuated. Within the 
  phylum Firmicutes, the majority of bacteria were Clostridium, Streptococcus 
  and Lactobacillus but while in the phylum Proteobacteria, the predominant bacteria 
  were Escherichia and Acetobacter. This is the first study to monitor bacterial 
  diversity in feces from captive giant pandas during the diet conversion period.
ER  -