The gut microbiota is viewed as the “second genome” of animals, sharing intricate
relationships with their respective hosts. Because the gut microbial community and its …

Gastrointestinal microbiota play a vital role in maintaining organismal health, through
facilitating nutrient uptake, detoxification and interactions with the immune system. The …

Birds represent a diverse and evolutionarily successful lineage, occupying a wide range of
niches throughout the world. Like all vertebrates, avians harbor diverse communities of …

In this Analysis we use published 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequences to compare the
bacterial assemblages that are associated with humans and other mammals, metazoa and …

Birds represent a diverse and evolutionarily successful lineage, occupying a wide range of
niches throughout the world. Like all vertebrates, avians harbor diverse communities of …

The intestinal microbiota have now been shown to largely affect host health through various
functional roles in terms of nutrition, immunity, and other physiological systems. However …

The importance of wild birds as potential vectors of disease has received recent renewed
empirical interest, especially regarding human health. Understanding the spread of bacterial …

The gut microbiomes of birds and other animals are increasingly being studied in ecological
and evolutionary contexts. Numerous studies on birds and reptiles have made inferences …

Research into proximate and ultimate mechanisms of individual cognitive variation in animal
populations is a rapidly growing field that incorporates physiological, behavioural and …

Urban sprawl increasingly affects the ecology of natural populations, including host–
microbiota interactions, with observed differences in the gut microbiota between urban and …