10.5061/DRYAD.HR0KM
Council, Sarah E.
North Carolina Central University
Savage, Amy M.
North Carolina State University
Urban, Julie M.
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
Ehlers, Megan E.
North Carolina State University
Skene, J. H. Pate
Duke University
Platt, Michael L.
Duke University
Dunn, Robert R.
North Carolina State University
Horvath, Julie E.
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
Data from: Diversity and evolution of the primate skin microbiome
Dryad
dataset
2015
primate
axilla
2015-12-11T15:49:15Z
2015-12-11T15:49:15Z
en
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.2586
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Skin microbes play a role in human body odour, health and disease.
Compared to gut microbes we know comparatively little about the changes in
the composition of skin microbes in response to evolutionary changes in
hosts, or more recent behavioral and cultural changes in humans. No
studies have used sequence-based approaches to consider the skin microbe
communities of gorillas and chimpanzees, for example. Comparison of the
microbial associates of non-human primates with those of humans offers
unique insights into both the ancient and modern features of our skin
associated microbes. Here we describe the microbes found on the skin of
humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, rhesus macaques and baboons. We focus on
the bacterial and Archaeal residents in the axilla using high throughput
sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene. We find that human skin microbial
communities are unique relative to those of other primates, both in terms
of their diversity and composition. These differences appear to reflect
both ancient shifts during millions of years of primate evolution and more
recent changes due to modern hygiene.
PrimateArmpitOTUsheetThis data file is the raw OTU chart of our primate
armpit samples.PrimateArmpitL2This files contains operational taxonomic
units at the phyla level (L2) from our primate armpit samples after
rarefaction at 1,000 reads.PrimateArmpitL6This files contains operational
taxonomic units at the genera level (L6) from our primate armpit samples
after rarefaction at 1,000 reads.