Host ecotype and rearing environment are the main drivers of threespine stickleback gut microbiota diversity in a naturalistic experiment

A Härer, CJ Frazier… - Royal Society Open …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Host–microbiota interactions play a critical role in the hosts' biology, and thus, it is crucial to
elucidate the mechanisms that shape gut microbial communities. We leveraged threespine …

Comparative analysis of the gut microbiome of ungulate species from Qinghai–**zang plateau

X Wang, X Gao, Y Chen, X Wu, Y Shang… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Several studies have investigated the gut bacterial composition of wild ungulates in the
Qinghai–**zang Plateau. However, the relationship between their gut microbiome …

[HTML][HTML] The Emergence of the Slc11 Clade MCbgut: A Parsimonious Hypothesis for the Dawn of Lactobacillales in the Gut of Early Vertebrates

MFM Cellier - Bacteria, 2024 - mdpi.com
The Lactobacillales (LB) stand apart among bacterial orders, using manganese (Mn) instead
of iron to support their growth and swiftly ferment complex foods while acidifying their …

Host traits and environmental variation shape gut microbiota diversity in wild threespine stickleback

A Härer, E Kurstjens, DJ Rennison - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Background: Despite the growing recognition of the importance of gut microbiota in host
ecology and evolution, our understanding of the relative contributions of host-associated …

Interplay between antipredator behavior, parasitism, and gut microbiome in wild stickleback populations

JE Varg, JC Brealey, D Benhaïm, R Losada-Germain… - 2024 - researchsquare.com
Background The role of predation stress in driving behavioral and microbial-host interaction
changes is recognized, but the impact of microbial composition in aquatic organisms and its …