Rodent middens provide a fine-scale spatiotemporal record of plant and animal
communities over the late Quaternary. In the Americas, middens have offered insight into …

Background & Aim: With high diversity, wide distribution, and close relationships with
humans, mammals play an irreplaceable role in maintaining the stability and balance of …

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 …

Mammalian gut microbial communities are thought to play a variety of important roles in
health and fitness, including digestion, metabolism, nutrition, immune response, behavior …

Urbanization significantly impacts wild populations, favoring urban dweller species over
those that are unable to adapt to rapid changes. These differential adaptative abilities could …

Phylosymbiosis is defined as the relationship in which the microbiome recapitulates the
phylogeny of the host and has been demonstrated in a variety of terrestrial organisms …

The gut microbiota of migratory waterbirds is affected by various complex factors, including
cross-species transmission, which increases the risk of pathogen spreading among …

兽类物种多样性高, 分布广泛, 与人类关系密切, 对维持生态系统稳定平衡具有不可替代的作用.
我国是世界上生态系统类型和兽类多样性最丰富的国家之一, 但多数生态系统的兽类物种资源 …

Intestinal microbiota, which plays an important role in human health by interacting with each
other or with its hosts, is affected by many endogenous and exogenous factors. Any change …

Alterations of microbial communities have evident impacts on development, digestion,
fecundity, metabolism, immunity, and diverse other biological functions of their hosts. Yet …