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September 18, 2018

Kenyan baboons will be at the center of research studying mammalian gut microbiomes.

Elizabeth Archie from the University of Notre Dame will study wild baboons in Kenya's Amboseli ecosystem (shown here) because they are useful in understanding the dynamics of mammalian gut microbiomes.

Credit: Elizabeth Archie, University of Notre Dame


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