Host specificity of the gut microbiome

EK Mallott, KR Amato - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2021‏ - nature.com
Develo** general principles of host–microorganism interactions necessitates a robust
understanding of the eco-evolutionary processes that structure microbiota. Phylosymbiosis …

Microbial transmission in the social microbiome and host health and disease

A Sarkar, CJA McInroy, S Harty, A Raulo, NGO Ibata… - Cell, 2024‏ - cell.com
Although social interactions are known to drive pathogen transmission, the contributions of
socially transmissible host-associated mutualists and commensals to host health and …

Anatomy and Physiology of the Digestive Tract of Drosophila melanogaster

I Miguel-Aliaga, H Jasper, B Lemaitre - Genetics, 2018‏ - academic.oup.com
The gastrointestinal tract has recently come to the forefront of multiple research fields. It is
now recognized as a major source of signals modulating food intake, insulin secretion and …

Gut microbial communities of social bees

WK Kwong, NA Moran - Nature reviews microbiology, 2016‏ - nature.com
The gut microbiota can have profound effects on hosts, but the study of these relationships in
humans is challenging. The specialized gut microbial community of honey bees is similar to …

Lifestyles in transition: evolution and natural history of the genus Lactobacillus

RM Duar, XB Lin, J Zheng, ME Martino… - FEMS microbiology …, 2017‏ - academic.oup.com
Lactobacillus species are found in nutrient-rich habitats associated with food, feed, plants,
animals and humans. Due to their economic importance, the metabolism, genetics and …

Microbiome interactions shape host fitness

AL Gould, V Zhang, L Lamberti, EW Jones… - Proceedings of the …, 2018‏ - pnas.org
Gut bacteria can affect key aspects of host fitness, such as development, fecundity, and
lifespan, while the host, in turn, shapes the gut microbiome. However, it is unclear to what …

Ecology-relevant bacteria drive the evolution of host antimicrobial peptides in Drosophila

MA Hanson, L Grollmus, B Lemaitre - Science, 2023‏ - science.org
Antimicrobial peptides are host-encoded immune effectors that combat pathogens and
shape the microbiome in plants and animals. However, little is known about how the host …

Not all animals need a microbiome

TJ Hammer, JG Sanders, N Fierer - FEMS microbiology letters, 2019‏ - academic.oup.com
It is often taken for granted that all animals host and depend upon a microbiome, yet this has
only been shown for a small proportion of species. We propose that animals span a …

Host biology in light of the microbiome: ten principles of holobionts and hologenomes

SR Bordenstein, KR Theis - PLoS biology, 2015‏ - journals.plos.org
Groundbreaking research on the universality and diversity of microorganisms is now
challenging the life sciences to upgrade fundamental theories that once seemed …

Phylosymbiosis: relationships and functional effects of microbial communities across host evolutionary history

AW Brooks, KD Kohl, RM Brucker, EJ van Opstal… - PLoS …, 2016‏ - journals.plos.org
Phylosymbiosis was recently proposed to describe the eco-evolutionary pattern, whereby
the ecological relatedness of host-associated microbial communities parallels the phylogeny …