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SUBMITTER: Macke E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5694789 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Macke Emilie E Callens Martijn M De Meester Luc L Decaestecker Ellen E
Nature communications 20171120 1
The gut microbiota impacts many aspects of its host's biology, and is increasingly considered as a key factor mediating performance of host individuals in continuously changing environments. Here we use gut microbiota transplants to show that both host genotype and gut microbiota mediate tolerance to toxic cyanobacteria in the freshwater crustacean Daphnia magna. Interclonal variation in tolerance to cyanobacteria disappears when Daphnia are made germ-free and inoculated with an identical microb ...[more]