During the ongoing biodiversity crisis, captive conservation and breeding programs offer a
refuge for species to persist and provide source populations for reintroduction efforts …

Gut microbial communities constitute a compartment of crucial importance in regulation of
homeostasis of multiple host physiological functions as well as in resistance towards …

Identifying factors that influence how ectothermic animals respond physiologically to
changing temperatures is of high importance given current threats of global climate change …

Colonization of gut microbiomes during early life can shape metabolism and immunity of
adult animals. However, most data are derived from antibiotic‐treated or germ‐free …

This review summarizes the role of environmental factors on amphibian microbiotas at the
organismal, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere levels. At the organismal …

Tadpoles are diverse and abundant consumers, and knowledge of their feeding ecology
and trophic status is essential in understanding their functional roles within aquatic habitats …

Symbiotic microbial communities are common in amphibians, and the composition of gut
microbial communities varies with factors such as host phylogeny, life stage, ecology, and …

There are many examples of symbiotic and reciprocal relationships in ecological systems;
animal gut microbiome–host interactions are one such kind of bidirectional and complex …

The gut microbiome is known to influence and have regulatory effects in diverse
physiological functions of host animals, but only recently has the relationship between host …

Background Microbiome in early life has long-term effects on the host's immunological and
physiological development and its disturbance is known to trigger various diseases in host …