It has long been recognized that microbial symbionts can affect hosts in many ways
[eg,(Turnbaugh et al., 2006; Frank et al., 2007; Wen et al., 2008; Engel and Moran, 2013)] …

The Cervidae family has a wide distribution due to its adaptation to numerous ecological
environments, which allows it to develop a diverse microbial community in its digestive tract …

Gnotobiotic murine models are important to understand microbiota–host interactions.
Despite the role of bacteriophages as drivers for microbiome structure and function, there is …

All animals harbor beneficial microbes. One way these microbes can benefit their animal
hosts is by increasing the diversity and efficacy of communication signals available to the …

ABSTRACT Fluoroquinolones (FQs) and ciprofloxacin (Cp) are important antimicrobials that
pollute the environment in trace amounts. Although Cp has been recommended as …

The mammal gut microbiome, which includes host microbes and their respective genes, is
now recognized as an essential second genome that provides critical functions to the host …

The honey bee is a powerful model system to probe host–gut microbiota interactions, and an
important pollinator species for natural ecosystems and for agriculture. While bacterial …

As a natural environment for human–microbiota interactions, healthy mucus houses a
remarkably stable and diverse microbial community. Maintaining this microbiota is essential …

Background Studies on the gut microbiota of animals have largely focused on vertebrates.
The transmission modes of commensal intestinal bacteria in mammals have been well …

Classical ecology provides principles for construction and function of biological
communities, but to what extent these apply to the animal-associated microbiota is just …