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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, May 2006, p. 3788-3792, Vol. 72, No. 5
0099-2240/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.72.5.3788-3792.2006
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

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Fecal Bacterial Diversity in a Wild Gorilla{dagger}

Julie C. Frey,1 Jessica M. Rothman,1 Alice N. Pell,1 John Bosco Nizeyi,3,4 Michael R. Cranfield,3,5 and Esther R. Angert2*

Department of Animal Science,1 Department of Microbiology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853,2 Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project, The Maryland Zoo In Baltimore, Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, Maryland 21217,3 Department of Wildlife and Animal Resource Management, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda,4 Division of Comparative Medicine, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 212055

Received 25 October 2005/ Accepted 15 March 2006

We describe the bacterial diversity in fecal samples of a wild gorilla by use of a 16S rRNA gene clone library and terminal-restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP). Clones were classified as Firmicutes, Verrucomicrobia, Actinobacteria, Lentisphaerae, Bacteroidetes, Spirochetes, and Planctomycetes. Our data suggest that fecal populations did not change temporally, as determined by T-RFLP.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Microbiology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853. Phone: (607) 254-4778. Fax: (607) 255-3904. E-mail: era23{at}cornell.edu.

{dagger} Supplemental material for this article may be found at http://aem.asm.org/.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, May 2006, p. 3788-3792, Vol. 72, No. 5
0099-2240/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.72.5.3788-3792.2006
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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