Microbial diversity of donkey milk from Xinjiang and Shandong in China

The microbial diversity in donkey milk has a great impact on its quality and safety. However, previous researches have been limited on traditional culture based methods, and little research has been performed on microbial diversity in donkey milk using high-throughput sequencing (HTS). In this stuty, the composition of bacterial communities in donkey milk of Yuepuhu County, Xinjiang, China (XJ), and Dong'e, Shandong, China (SD) has been determined using HTS.

驴乳中的微生物多样性对其品质与安全性具有显著影响。然而此前的相关研究多采用传统培养方法，采用高通量测序（High-Throughput Sequencing，HTS）探究驴乳微生物多样性的研究仍较为匮乏。本研究采用HTS技术，对中国新疆岳普湖县（XJ）与山东东阿（SD）的驴乳中的细菌群落组成进行了测定分析。