Increased urea nitrogen salvaging by a remodeled gut microbiota helps nonhibernating pikas maintain protein homeostasis during winter

• Fuyu Shi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0009-3827-8626

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• Desheng Zou,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong, China

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• Liangzhi Zhang,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, Qinghai, China

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• Na Guo,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong, China

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• Jiangkun Yu,

  Roles Methodology, Software

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-Resources in Yunnan, School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan, China

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• Abraham Allan Degen,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

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• Xianjiang Tang,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, Qinghai, China

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• Shien Ren,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, Qinghai, China

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• Yuning Ru,

  Roles Data curation, Software

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong, China

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• Shuai Zheng,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong, China

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• Yanming Zhang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Visualization

  * E-mail: zhangym@nwipb.cas.cn (YZ); dehuawang@sdu.edu.cn (DW)

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, Qinghai, China

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• Dehua Wang

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zhangym@nwipb.cas.cn (YZ); dehuawang@sdu.edu.cn (DW)

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7322-2371

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