Dominant factors sha** the gut microbiota of wild birds

MIA Matheen, MR Gillings… - Emu-Austral Ornithology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The role of the gut microbiota in regulating host physiology and health is well established,
with effects on host development, behaviour, nutrition, immunity, and reproductive strategy …

Methanogenic patterns in the gut microbiome are associated with survival in a population of feral horses

MR Stothart, PD McLoughlin, SA Medill… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Gut microbiomes are widely hypothesised to influence host fitness and have been
experimentally shown to affect host health and phenotypes under laboratory conditions …

Sociability in a non-captive macaque population is associated with beneficial gut bacteria

KVA Johnson, KK Watson, RIM Dunbar… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The relationship between social behaviour and the microbiome is known to be reciprocal.
Research in wild animal populations, particularly in primate social groups, has revealed the …

Longitudinal gut microbiome dynamics in relation to age and senescence in a wild animal population

SF Worsley, CS Davies, CZ Lee… - Molecular …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In humans, gut microbiome (GM) differences are often correlated with, and sometimes
causally implicated in, ageing. However, it is unclear how these findings translate in wild …

Comparative gut microbiome research through the lens of ecology: theoretical considerations and best practices

S Degregori, X Wang, A Kommala… - Biological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Comparative approaches in animal gut microbiome research have revealed patterns of
phylosymbiosis, dietary and physiological convergences, and environment–host …

The long-term gut bacterial signature of a wild primate is associated with a timing effect of pre-and postnatal maternal glucocorticoid levels

S Anzà, D Schneider, R Daniel, M Heistermann… - Microbiome, 2023 - Springer
Background During development, elevated levels of maternal glucocorticoids (GCs) can
have detrimental effects on offspring morphology, cognition, and behavior as well as …

Gut microbiota individuality is contingent on temporal scale and age in wild meerkats

A Risely, DW Schmid… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Inter-individual differences in gut microbiota composition are hypothesized to generate
variation in host fitness—a premise for the evolution of host–gut microbe symbioses …

Bacteroidetes to Firmicutes: captivity changes the gut microbiota composition and diversity in a social subterranean rodent

HM Bensch, C Tolf, J Waldenström, D Lundin, M Zöttl - Animal microbiome, 2023 - Springer
Background In mammals, the gut microbiota has important effects on the health of their
hosts. Recent research highlights that animal populations that live in captivity often differ in …

Aging gut microbiota of wild macaques are equally diverse, less stable, but progressively personalized

B Sadoughi, D Schneider, R Daniel, O Schülke… - Microbiome, 2022 - Springer
Background Pronounced heterogeneity of age trajectories has been identified as a hallmark
of the gut microbiota in humans and has been explained by marked changes in lifestyle and …

Linking migration and microbiota at a major stopover site in a long-distance avian migrant

N Thie, A Corl, S Turjeman, R Efrat, PL Kamath… - Movement Ecology, 2022 - Springer
Migration is one of the most physical and energetically demanding periods in an individual
bird's life. The composition of the bird's gut or cloacal microbiota can temporarily change …