Host diet and evolutionary history explain different aspects of gut microbiome diversity among vertebrate clades

Host phylogeny and diet are major explanatory factors of animal gut microbiome diversity, but our understanding of these associations is limited by a focus on captive animals and a narrow taxonomic scope. Here, the authors isolate evolutionary and ecological drivers of gut microbiomes from wild mamm...

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Main Authors: Nicholas D. Youngblut, Georg H. Reischer, William Walters, Nathalie Schuster, Chris Walzer, Gabrielle Stalder, Ruth E. Ley, Andreas H. Farnleitner
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/7465e078d2da48a48527d29e1351a9df
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