400 species. Bamboos are distributed in tropical and subtropical to mild temperate regions, with the heaviest concentration and largest number of species in East andSoutheast Asiaand on islands of the Indian and Pacific oceans. A few species of the genusArundinariaare native to the southernUnited ...
S2). Significantly high Bray-Curtis dissimilarity using gut microbial genera (genus level in QIIME taxonomy level 6) was uncovered when giant panda and red panda samples were compared with those from deer, humans, cheetah (Menke et al., 2014), black-backed jackal (Menke et al., 2014), ...
Canine distemper (CD), caused by canine distemper virus (CDV) belonging to the genusMorbillivirusof the familyParamyxoviridae, is a highly contagious and fatal disease6. It has been reported to infect giant pandas in China since 1994 and resulted in the deaths of several captive individuals7,8,...
The giant panda feeds almost exclusively on bamboo, a diet highly enriched in lignin and cellulose, but is characterized by a digestive tract similar to carnivores. It is still large unknown if and how the giant panda gut microbiota contributes to lignin and cellulose degradation. Here we show ...
In this study, we describe a previously unrecognized species of hookworm in the genusAncylostomain the giant panda, including criteria for morphological and molecular characterization. The hookworm specimens were obtained from a wild giant panda that died in the Fengtongzai Natural Reserve in Sichuan...
(Fig.1). The morphology of the preserved dentition closely matches that of the stem genusAilurarctos(tribe Ailuropodini) from Lufeng and Yuanmou14,15, the most basal panda so far known. The false thumb inAilurarctosshows an intermediate morphology (see below), and thus documents, for the ...
Figure 3. Accumulation of fermentation products in In vitro tests inoculated with gut microbiomes from giant panda fecal samples, namely: (A) Inoculum + Leaf; (B) Inoculum; and (C) De-H2O inoculum + Leaf. Keys reported in the graph. These...