Dietary Plasticity In Primates

These differences not only correlate to a wide variety of foods eaten by primates but it also correlates a tie between humans and primates.

Dietary plasticity in primates. In general primates have multiple tooth types such as incisors canines premolars and molars. Examining the behavioral response of howler monkeys alouatta pigra to translocation may lend some insight into their ability to repopulate and persist in tropical forest fragments in fragmented landscapes forest patches may be large enough to sustain small numbers of individuals and social groups but not at levels high enough for populations to persist solely in these patches. 1 primates are adapted to life in the trees arboreal adaptation. Hypothesis that gut microbes contribute to host dietary plasticity by providing specific metabolic services tailored for the breakdown of certain foods 7 8.

Among these categories there are differences in dentition a result of primate dietary plasticity. Evolutionary trends in host physiology outweigh dietary niche in structuring primate gut microbiomes. A dna metabarcoding study of a primate dietary diversity and plasticity across its entire fragmented range erwan quéméré 1 2 fabrice hibert 3 christian miquel 4 emeline lhuillier 2 emmanuel rasolondraibe 5 julie champeau 1 clément rabarivola 5 louis nusbaumer 6 cyrille chatelain 6 laurent gautier 6 patrick ranirison.