A healthy animal intestine hosts a diverse population of bacteria in a symbiotic relationship.
These bacteria utilize nutrients in the host's intestinal environment for growth and …

Host phylogeny and the environment play vital roles in shaping animal microbiomes.
However, the effects of these variables on the diversity and richness of the gut microbiome in …

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is a widely consumed vegetable, and the tomato fruit
weight is a key yield component. Many quantitative trait loci (QTLs) controlling tomato fruit …

Scope Orosomucoid 2 (Orm2) is a hepatocyte‐secreted protein that plays a crucial role in
regulating obesity‐type metabolic disease and immunity. The imbalance of gut microbiota is …

Gut microbiota play an essential role in host health with important implications for
conservation management of threatened wildlife. While factors such as diet, medication and …

Background and Objectives: The gut microbiota has been increasingly recognized as a
relevant factor associated with metabolic diseases. However, directly measuring the …

Antibiotic resistance is a priority public health problem resulting from eco-evolutionary
dynamics within microbial communities and their interaction at a mammalian host interface …

The breadth of phenotypes influenced by the gut microbiome in multicellular hosts has
attracted the keen and renewed interest of evolutionary biologists. Comparative studies …

The mammalian intestine is a unique ecosystem for thousands of bacterial species and
strains. How naturally coexisting bacteria of the microbiota interact with each other is not yet …