The gut microbiota of vertebrates are essential to host health. Most non-model vertebrates,
however, lack even a basic description of natural gut microbiota biodiversity. Here, we …

Birds represent a diverse and evolutionarily successful lineage, occupying a wide range of
niches throughout the world. Like all vertebrates, avians harbor diverse communities of …

Gastrointestinal microbiota play a vital role in maintaining organismal health, through
facilitating nutrient uptake, detoxification and interactions with the immune system. The …

The composition of gut bacterial communities is strongly influenced by the host diet in many
animal taxa. For birds, the effect of diet on the microbiomes has been documented through …

Birds represent a diverse and evolutionarily successful lineage, occupying a wide range of
niches throughout the world. Like all vertebrates, avians harbor diverse communities of …

Diet and host phylogeny drive the taxonomic and functional contents of the gut microbiome
in mammals, yet it is unknown whether these patterns hold across all vertebrate lineages …

How the microbiome interacts with hosts across evolutionary time is poorly understood. Data
sets including many host species are required to conduct comparative analyses. Here, we …

Gut microbiota can have important effects on host health, but explanatory factors and
pathways that determine gut microbial composition can differ among host lineages. In …

The gut microbiota is viewed as the “second genome” of animals, sharing intricate
relationships with their respective hosts. Because the gut microbial community and its …

The microbiome is a vital component to the evolution of a host and much of what we know
about the microbiome derives from studies on humans and captive animals. But captivity …