Throughout their evolutionary history, bacteria have faced diverse threats from other
microorganisms, including competing bacteria, bacteriophages and predators. In response …

Allergic diseases such as allergic rhinitis (AR), allergic asthma (AAS), atopic dermatitis (AD),
food allergy (FA), and eczema are systemic diseases caused by an impaired immune …

Many species, including humans, host communities of symbiotic microbes. There is a vast
literature on the ways these microbiomes affect hosts, but here we argue for an increased …

A growing number of human gut microbiome studies consistently describe differences
between human populations. Here, we review how factors related to host genetics, ethnicity …

Understanding the mechanisms that maintain microbial biodiversity is a critical aspiration in
ecology. Past work on microbial coexistence has largely focused on species pairs, but it is …

Microbiome breeding is a new artificial selection technique that seeks to change the genetic
composition of microbiomes in order to benefit plant or animal hosts. Recent experimental …

Genes encoding resistance to stressors, such as antibiotics or environmental pollutants, are
widespread across microbiomes, often encoded on mobile genetic elements. Yet, despite …

Most tick‐borne pathogens (TBPs) are secondarily acquired by ticks during feeding on
infected hosts, which imposes 'priority effect'constraints, as arrival order influences the …

Animal microbiomes are occasionally considered as an extension of host anatomy,
physiology, and even their genomic architecture. Their compositions encompass variable …

Background The gut microbiome undergoes primary ecological succession over the course
of early life before achieving ecosystem stability around 3 years of age. These maturational …