Microbial transmission in animal social networks and the social microbiome

A Sarkar, S Harty, KVA Johnson, AH Moeller… - Nature ecology & …, 2020 - nature.com
Host-associated microbiomes play an increasingly appreciated role in animal metabolism,
immunity and health. The microbes in turn depend on their host for resources and can be …

Infectious disease risk across the growing human-non human primate interface: a review of the evidence

CA Devaux, O Mediannikov, H Medkour… - Frontiers in public …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Most of the human pandemics reported to date can be classified as zoonoses. Among these,
there is a long history of infectious diseases that have spread from non-human primates …

[HTML][HTML] Insights into gut dysbiosis: inflammatory diseases, obesity, and restoration approaches

A Acevedo-Román, N Pagán-Zayas… - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
The gut microbiota is one of the most critical factors in human health. It involves numerous
physiological processes impacting host health, mainly via immune system modulation. A …

Drivers of gut microbiome variation within and between groups of a wild Malagasy primate

K Rudolph, D Schneider, C Fichtel, R Daniel… - Microbiome, 2022 - Springer
Background Various aspects of sociality can benefit individuals' health. The host social
environment and its relative contributions to the host-microbiome relationship have emerged …

Ecology and evolution of the social microbiome

R Debray, J Tung, EA Archie - Annual Review of Ecology …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Animals with close social relationships often have similar microbiomes. These socially
structured microbiomes can arise through multiple mechanisms that are often difficult to …

PandaGUT provides new insights into bacterial diversity, function, and resistome landscapes with implications for conservation

G Huang, W Shi, L Wang, Q Qu, Z Zuo, J Wang, F Zhao… - Microbiome, 2023 - Springer
Background The gut microbiota play important roles in host adaptation and evolution, but
are understudied in natural population of wild mammals. To address host adaptive evolution …

Host phylogeny and host ecology structure the mammalian gut microbiota at different taxonomic scales

CA Rojas, S Ramírez-Barahona, KE Holekamp… - Animal Microbiome, 2021 - Springer
The gut microbiota is critical for host function. Among mammals, host phylogenetic
relatedness and diet are strong drivers of gut microbiota structure, but one factor may be …

Social and environmental transmission spread different sets of gut microbes in wild mice

A Raulo, PC Bürkner, GE Finerty, J Dale… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
Gut microbes shape many aspects of organismal biology, yet how these key bacteria
transmit among hosts in natural populations remains poorly understood. Recent work in …

Reconstitution and transmission of gut microbiomes and their genes between generations

E Rosenberg, I Zilber-Rosenberg - Microorganisms, 2021 - mdpi.com
Microbiomes are transmitted between generations by a variety of different vertical and/or
horizontal modes, including vegetative reproduction (vertical), via female germ cells …

Scales of persistence: transmission and the microbiome

CD Robinson, BJM Bohannan, RA Britton - Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Microbial transmission shapes microbiomes through social networks and co-
housing.•The colonization and persistence dynamics of microbiome members is …