Metabarcoding primate parasite communities

We demonstrate the feasibility of a metabarcoding approach for describing parasite communities by analyzing fecal samples from 11 non-human primate species spanning the primate phylogeny, representing the full range of sampling effort (i.e., from no parasites reported in the literature to the best studied primates).For this, we collected and analyzed fecal samples from 11 non-human primate species from five countries and used three different PCR systems (G3F1/G3R1, G4F3/G4R3, and G6F1/G6R1) to target the 18S ribosomal RNA gene of a large array of parasites.