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

In recent years, emerging sequencing technologies and computational tools have driven a
tidal wave of research on host-associated microbiomes, particularly the gut microbiome …

Seasonal variations in gut microbiota of small mammals and how they are influenced by
environmental variables are relatively poorly understood. We sampled 162 wild plateau …

Simple Summary The development of edible insect farming is crucial for meeting agricultural
sustainability goals in the face of growing food demands, ongoing depletion of natural …

The gut microbiome performs many important functions in mammalian hosts, with community
composition shaping its functional role. However, the factors that drive individual microbiota …

Contact with environmental microbial communities primes the human immune system.
Factors determining the distribution of microorganisms, such as dispersal, are thus important …

Within a given species, considerable inter‐individual, spatial, and temporal variation in the
composition of the host microbiome exists. In group‐living animals, social interactions …

Prevailing 16S rRNA gene‐amplicon methods for characterizing the bacterial microbiome of
wildlife are economical, but result in coarse taxonomic classifications, are subject to primer …

Untangling how factors such as environment, host, associations among bacterial species
and dispersal predict microbial composition is a fundamental challenge. In this study, we …

Gut microbiomes are widely hypothesised to influence host fitness and have been
experimentally shown to affect host health and phenotypes under laboratory conditions …