Host diet and evolutionary history explain different aspects of gut microbiome diversity among vertebrate clades.
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SUBMITTER: Youngblut ND
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6522487 | biostudies-other | 2019 May
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Host diet and evolutionary history explain different aspects of gut microbiome diversity among vertebrate clades.
Youngblut Nicholas D ND Reischer Georg H GH Walters William W Schuster Nathalie N Walzer Chris C Stalder Gabrielle G Ley Ruth E RE Farnleitner Andreas H AH
Nature communications 20190516 1
Multiple factors modulate microbial community assembly in the vertebrate gut, though studies disagree as to their relative contribution. One cause may be a reliance on captive animals, which can have very different gut microbiomes compared to their wild counterparts. To resolve this disagreement, we analyze a new, large, and highly diverse animal distal gut 16 S rRNA microbiome dataset, which comprises 80% wild animals and includes members of Mammalia, Aves, Reptilia, Amphibia, and Actinopterygi ...[more]
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