Seasonal dietary shifts drive gut microbiome plasticity and metabolic adaptation in wild yaks on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau
Jiahui Hao, Hongjin Liu, Tongqing Guo, Qian Zhang, Xungang Wang, Lele An, Shixiao Xu · 2025
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Jiahui Hao and co-authors trace how wild yaks on a high plateau shift their gut microbes with the seasons. Their paper from 2025 deals with yaks on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, where food quality swings hard across the year. Gut microbes help the host pull nutrients from tough forage.
The team joined diet records with microbe and chemical profiles across seasons. Summer diets were richer in one plant family and poorer in another than autumn and winter diets. Diet breadth was widest in autumn, and summer and winter diets overlapped least. Microbe links were most complex in autumn, a change over season. One large microbe group grew in winter, which hints at better energy pull from poor forage.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jiahui Hao, Hongjin Liu, Tongqing Guo, Qian Zhang, Xungang Wang, Lele An, Shixiao Xu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 47 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |