The intestinal microbiota is a fundamental factor that broadly influences physiology. Thus,
studies using transgenic animals should be designed to limit the confounding effects of …

The health and fitness of animals, including humans, are influenced by the presence and
composition of resident microbial communities. The development of rational microbial …

Intestinal bacteria influence mammalian physiology, but many types of bacteria are still
uncharacterized. Moreover, reference strains of mouse gut bacteria are not easily available …

Knowledge of the spatial organization of the gut microbiota is important for understanding
the physical and molecular interactions among its members. These interactions are thought …

Mammalian hosts constantly interact with diverse exogenous microbes, but only a subset of
the microbes manage to colonize due to selective colonization resistance exerted by host …

Every mammalian species harbours a gut microbiota, and variation in the gut microbiota
within mammalian species can have profound effects on host phenotypes. In this review, we …

The microbial communities inhabiting the mammalian intestinal tract play an important role
in diverse aspects of host biology. However, little is known regarding the forces shaping …

Laboratory mice are the most commonly used animal model in translational medical
research. In recent years, the impact of the gut microbiota (ie communities of …

Human microbiota-associated (HMA) mice have been used extensively in gut microbiome
research. Here we discuss ecological and evolutionary aspects of the mammalian-gut …

Mammalian species harbor compositionally distinct gut microbial communities, but the
mechanisms that maintain specificity of symbionts to host species remain unclear. Here, we …