Feelings of hunger and satiety are the key determinants for maintaining the life of humans
and animals. Disturbed appetite control may disrupt the metabolic health of the host and …

Birds harbor complex gut bacterial communities that may sustain their ecologies and
facilitate their biological roles, distribution, and diversity. Research on gut microbiomes in …

Research on animal–microbiota interactions has become a central topic in biological
sciences because of its relevance to basic eco-evolutionary processes and applied …

Laboratory-based research dominates the fields of comparative physiology and
biomechanics. The power of lab work has long been recognized by experimental biologists …

Animals with close social relationships often have similar microbiomes. These socially
structured microbiomes can arise through multiple mechanisms that are often difficult to …

Background The vertebrate gut microbiome (GM) can vary substantially across individuals
within the same natural population. Although there is evidence linking the GM to health in …

Gut microbes shape many aspects of organismal biology, yet how these key bacteria
transmit among hosts in natural populations remains poorly understood. Recent work in …

Hologenomics, the joint analysis of host genomes and microbial metagenomes, has the
potential to address fundamental biological questions from a systemic host‐microbiota …

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 …

The microbial community in the gut is influenced by environmental factors, especially diet,
which can moderate host behaviour through the microbiome-gut-brain axis. However, the …