Yearly variation coupled with social interactions shape the skin microbiome in free-ranging rhesus macaques.

The same alpha diversity measure was used to explore correlations between other behavioral measures, including the rate of time a monkey spent receiving grooming from another monkey and the rate of time spent giving grooming, the latter being slightly significant, indicating that a higher level of social interaction leads to more skin diversity ( P = 0.06, P = 0.048, respectively; Fig. 3B and C ).

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