The role of the gut microbiota in regulating host physiology and health is well established,
with effects on host development, behaviour, nutrition, immunity, and reproductive strategy …

Wild birds are known to harbor and discharge antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) and their
associated antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). However, assessments of their contribution …

Historically, the fields of ecoimmunology, psychoneuroimmunology and disease ecology
have taken complementary yet disparate theoretical and experimental approaches, despite …

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 …

In wild animals, diet and gut microbiota interactions are critical moderators of metabolic
functions and are highly contingent on habitat conditions. Challenged by the extreme …

The intestinal microbiota play vital roles for health of wild birds in many ways. Migratory birds
with unique life history might increase the risk of pathogenic transmission across the …

Rodent and human malaria parasites cause dysbiosis in the host gut microbiome, but
whether Plasmodium species affecting birds cause dysbiosis in their hosts is currently …

Urban environments are evolutionarily novel and differ from natural environments in many
respects including food and/or water availability, predation, noise, light, air quality …

Emus (Dromaius novaehollandiae), a large flightless omnivorous ratite, are farmed for their
fat and meat. Emu fat can be rendered into oil for therapeutic and cosmetic use. They are …

Less is known about the role of gut microbiota in overwintering environmental adaptation in
migratory birds. Here, we performed metagenomic sequencing on fresh fecal samples (n …