Hologenomic data generation and analysis in wild vertebrates

C Pietroni, N Gaun, A Leonard… - Methods in Ecology …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Hologenomics, the joint analysis of host genomes and microbial metagenomes, has the
potential to address fundamental biological questions from a systemic host‐microbiota …

Dietary intervention in captive-bred hares fails to enrich gut microbiomes with wild-like functions

O Aizpurua, G Martin-Bideguren, N Gaun, A Alberdi - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Reintroducing captive-bred animals into the wild often faces limited success, with the
underlying causes frequently unclear. One emerging hypothesis is that maladapted gut …

Contrasting recovery of metagenome‑assembled genomes and derived microbial communities from lizard fecal and cloacal samples

M Hernández, J Langa, O Aizpurua, YE Navarro-Noya… - 2024 - researchsquare.com
Genome-resolved metagenomics, based on shotgun sequencing, has become a powerful
strategy for investigating animal-associated microbiomes, due its heightened capability for …