To study how microbes establish themselves in a mammalian gut environment, we
colonized germ-free mice with microbial communities from human, zebrafish, and termite …

Laboratory mice, while paramount for understanding basic biological phenomena, are
limited in modeling complex diseases of humans and other free-living mammals. Because …

Recent studies in model organisms have shown that compositional variation in the
microbiome can affect a variety of host phenotypes including those related to digestion …

Gastrointestinal infection changes microbiome composition and gene expression. In this
study, we demonstrate that enteric infection also promotes rapid genetic adaptation in a gut …

Host‐associated microbial communities consist of stable and transient members that can
assemble through purely stochastic processes associated with the environment or by …

The gut microbiome performs many important functions in mammalian hosts, with community
composition shaping its functional role. However, the factors that drive individual microbiota …

The gut microbiota is now widely recognized as a dynamic ecosystem that plays an
important role in health and disease. Although current sequencing technologies make it …

Different host species associate with distinct gut microbes in mammals, a pattern sometimes
referred to as phylosymbiosis. However, the processes shaping this host specificity are not …

Eukaryotic organisms are colonized by rich and dynamic communities of microbes, both
internally (eg, in the gastrointestinal and respiratory tracts) and externally (eg, on skin and …

A longstanding hypothesis in intestinal microbial ecology is that autochthonous microbes
(resident) play a role that is distinct from allochthonous microbes (transient microbes in the …