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  1. In recent years, rising temperatures due to climate change have become significant stressors in aquatic environments, impacting disease incidence, growth, and gut microbiota in fish. Cold-water species, such a...

    Authors: Che-Chun Chen, Yu-Ping Chen, Hsiao-Tsu Yang, Yu-Ling Chen, Chen-Wei Wu, Hong-Yi Gong, Yuan-Shing Ho and Ying-Ning Ho
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:49
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  2. The success rate of artificial insemination in sheep remains suboptimal, which has led to an emerging interest in the impact of the reproductive tract microbiome on this process. This research aims to identify...

    Authors: E. L. Reinoso-Peláez, F. Puente-Sánchez, M. Serrano, J. H. Calvo, M. Ramón and M. Saura
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:48
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  3. Age-associated changes to the intestinal microbiome may be linked to inflammageing and the development of age-related chronic diseases. Cynomolgus macaques, a common animal model in biomedical research, have s...

    Authors: C. Purse, A. Parker, S. A. James, D. J. Baker, C. J. Moss, R. Evans, J. Durham, S. G. P. Funnell and S. R. Carding
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:47
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  5. Liver abscesses caused by polymicrobial infections of the liver are a widespread problem in feedlot cattle production. There are currently no effective methods for the early detection of liver abscesses or to ...

    Authors: Germán Plata, Nielson T. Baxter, Troy B. Hawkins, Lucas Huntimer, Akshitha Nagireddy, Dwi Susanti and James B. Reinbold
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:45
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  6. Dietary supplementation with oregano essential oil (OEO), a natural plant extracts, is an effective and acceptable method to improve growth, beef quantity and quality, but the undergoing mechanism in rumen has...

    Authors: Yongliang Huang, Siyu Cheng, Jinping Shi, Pengjia He, Yue Ma, Ruixin Yang, Xu Zhang, Yongzhi Cao and Zhaomin Lei
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:44
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  7. The commercial demand for small pelagic fish, such as Atlantic chub mackerel (Scomber colias), renders them susceptible to provenance fraud. Scomber colias specimens intestinal tract bacteriome from five distinct...

    Authors: Bernardo Duarte, Eduardo Feijão, Ana Cruz-Silva, Pedro Pascoal, Mónica Nunes, Marcelo Pereira, Andreia Figueiredo, Ricardo P. Dias, Susanne E. Tanner and Vanessa F. Fonseca
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:43
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  8. The microbiome is well known to drive variation in host states (e.g. behaviour, immunity) that would be expected to modulate the spread of infectious disease—but the role of microbiotal interactions in promoti...

    Authors: Klara M. Wanelik, Mike Begon, Janette E. Bradley, Jonathan Fenn, Joseph A. Jackson and Steve Paterson
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:42
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  9. Understanding the biological mechanisms underlying extreme lifespan variation within species remains a fundamental challenge in aging research. Here, we investigated the role of gut microbiota and age in honey...

    Authors: Duan C. Copeland, Oliver L. Kortenkamp, Brendon M. Mott, Charles J. Mason and Kirk E. Anderson
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:41
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  10. The microbiome is increasingly recognized to shape many aspects of its host biology and is a key determinant of health and disease. The microbiome may influence transmission of pathogens by their vectors, such...

    Authors: Lauren V. Carruthers, Stephanie C. Nordmeyer, Timothy JC. Anderson, Frédéric D. Chevalier and Winka Le Clec’h
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:40
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  11. The gut microbiome plays a crucial role in health and disease, influencing digestion, metabolism, and immune function. Traditional microbiome analysis methods are often expensive, time-consuming, and require s...

    Authors: Annemiek Maaskant, Donghyeok Lee, Huy Ngo, Roy C. Montijn, Jaco Bakker, Jan A. M. Langermans and Evgeni Levin
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:39
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  12. Cooling is one of the most common and economical methods to ameliorate heat stress (HS), and it has been discovered to alter the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) endotoxin level in ruminants. However, whether the endo...

    Authors: Zuo Wang, Qingyang Wu, Weijun Shen, Fachun Wan, Jianhua He, Lei Liu, Shaoxun Tang and Zhiliang Tan
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:38
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  13. Migration poses significant energetic challenges for migratory birds, during which both intrinsic and extrinsic factors affecting the gut microbiota alter substantially. While the temporal dynamics of gut micr...

    Authors: Xiaoqi Ouyang, Yu Guan, Jianchi Pei, Jianping Ge, Hongfang Wang and Lei Bao
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:37
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  14. In certain cephalopod species, two distinct symbiotic organs host large populations of microorganisms: the light organ, regulated by the daily cycle, and the accessory nidamental gland (ANG), regulated by the ...

    Authors: Ling Chiu, Jei-Lin Guo, Hau-Wen Li, Hai-Jin Chang, Shan-Hua Yang, Sylvie Dufour, Ching-Fong Chang, Yung-Che Tseng and Guan-Chung Wu
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:36
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  15. Heat stress poses a significant challenge to dairy cattle, leading to adverse physiological effects, reduced milk yield, impaired reproduction performance and economic losses. This study investigates the role ...

    Authors: Mingxun Li, Zhiwei Wang, Zheng Ma, Yangyang Wang, Haoran Jia, Lei Zhang, Peng Chen, Yongjiang Mao and Zhangping Yang
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:35
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  16. Prolonged exposure to cold stress in cattle increases basal energy consumption and impedes optimal production. Consequently, herds require adequate attention during cold, extended winters to alleviate cold str...

    Authors: Yongliang Huang, Siyu Cheng, Jinping Shi, Pengjia He, Yue Ma, Xu Zhang, Yongzhi Cao and Zhaomin Lei
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:34
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  17. The gut bacteriome influences host metabolic and physiological functions. However, its relationship with reproductive performance remains unclear. In this study, we evaluated the relationship between the gut b...

    Authors: Yutaka Taguchi, Haruki Yamano, Yudai Inabu, Hirokuni Miyamoto, Koki Hayasaki, Noriyuki Maeda, Yoshiro Kanmera, Seiji Yamasaki, Noboru Ota, Kenji Mukawa, Atsushi Kurotani, Shigeharu Moriya, Teruno Nakaguma, Chitose Ishii, Makiko Matsuura, Tetsuji Etoh…
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:33
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  18. The microbiota is implicated in several aspects of livestock health and disease. Understanding the structure and function of the poultry microbiota would be a valuable tool for improving their health and produ...

    Authors: Zhixuan Feng, Natalia Lorenc, Bridget O’Brien, Guangwen Sun, Zhiwei Li, Dongyun Jung and Jennifer Ronholm
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:32
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  19. The gut microbiota plays a crucial role in modulating various physiological and pathological processes through its metabolites, including short-chain fatty acids (SCFA), which impact immune system development,...

    Authors: Marco Silvestrino, Mattia Pirolo, Angelica Bianco, Stefano Castellana, Laura Del Sambro, Viviana Domenica Tarallo, Luca Guardabassi, Andrea Zatelli and Floriana Gernone
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:31
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  20. The gut microbiota exerts a critical influence on energy metabolism homeostasis and productive performance in avian species. Given the diminishing availability of arable land and intensifying competition for f...

    Authors: Rongbing Guo, Yuguang Chang, Dandan Wang, Hanxue Sun, Tiantian Gu, Yibo Zong, Shiheng Zhou, Zhizhou Huang, Li Chen, Yong Tian, Wenwu Xu, Lizhi Lu and Tao Zeng
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:30
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  21. All animals harbor microbiomes, which are obtained from the surrounding environment and are impacted by host behavior and life stage. To determine how two non-mutually exclusive drivers - physical environment ...

    Authors: Denisse Alejandra Gamboa, Peter J. Flynn, Eva Sofia Horna-Lowell and Noa Pinter-Wollman
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:29
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  22. Antibiotics and antiparasitics are essential tools in controlling infectious disease outbreaks in commercial aquaculture. While the negative effects of antimicrobials on the gut microbiome of various farmed fi...

    Authors: Lisa-Marie Streb, Paulina Cholewińska, Silvia Gschwendtner, Juergen Geist, Susanne Rath and Michael Schloter
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:28
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  23. Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) poses a persistent challenge in the beef cattle industry, impacting both animal health and economic aspects. Several risk factors make an animal susceptible to BRD, including b...

    Authors: Ruth Eunice Centeno-Delphia, Natalie Glidden, Erica Long, Audrey Ellis, Sarah Hoffman, Kara Mosier, Noelmi Ulloa, Johnnie Junior Cheng, Josiah Levi Davidson, Suraj Mohan, Mohamed Kamel, Josh I. Szasz, Jon Schoonmaker, Jennifer Koziol, Jacquelyn P. Boerman, Aaron Ault…
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:27
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  24. Nutrients are one of the key determinants of gut microbiota variation. However, the intricate associations between the amino acid (AA) profile and the dynamic fluctuations in the gut microbiota and resistome r...

    Authors: Hongyu Wang, Yue Li, Jinwei You, Ni Feng, Dongfang Wang, Yong Su and Xiaobo Feng
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:26
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  25. Diarrhea is usually observed in newborn Hu lambs, while severe diarrhea may lead to the stunted growth and even death in lambs, necessitating the common practice of antibiotic administration to newborns. In or...

    Authors: Xinyi Xu, Zhiwei Zhou, Zhiqiang Zhou, Yudong Ma, Dongmei Luo, Senlin Zhang, Pinggui Yang, Tianwu An and Qun Sun
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:25
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  26. Methane emissions from livestock, particularly from dairy cattle, represent a significant source of greenhouse gas, contributing to the global climate crisis. Understanding the complex interactions within the ...

    Authors: Xiaoxing Ye, Goutam Sahana, Mogens Sandø Lund, Bingjie Li and Zexi Cai
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:24
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  27. Microbial seeding in early life is critical for the host’s short- and long-term health, and the mother is the first source of bacteria for the newborn. The objective of this study was to characterize the mater...

    Authors: Quentin Garrigues, Emmanuelle Apper, Fanny Mercier, Ana Rodiles, Nicoletta Rovere, Sylvie Chastant and Hanna Mila
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:23
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  28. The enteric myxozoan parasite Enteromyxum leei is an important problem in gilthead seabream aquaculture invading the intestinal epithelium and leading to chronic intestinal inflammation, poor food conversion rate...

    Authors: Socorro Toxqui-Rodríguez, Itziar Estensoro, Ricardo Domingo-Bretón, Raquel Del Pozo, Jaume Pérez-Sánchez, Detmer Sipkema, Ariadna Sitjà-Bobadilla and M. Carla Piazzon
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:22
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  29. Bats are extraordinary mammals. They have evolved to consume various dietary sources, such as insects, fruits, nectar, blood, and meat. This diversity has generated considerable interest in the scientific comm...

    Authors: Muhd Amsyari Morni, Julius William-Dee, Emy Ritta Jinggong, Nor Al-Shuhada Sabaruddin, Nur Afiqah Aqilah Azhar, Muhammad Amin Iman, Peter A. Larsen, Jaya Seelan Sathiya Seelan, Lesley Maurice Bilung and Faisal Ali Anwarali Khan
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:21
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  30. Dynamic interspecific interactions and environmental factors deeply impact the composition of microbiotic communities in the gut. These factors intertwined with the host’s genetic background and social habits ...

    Authors: Beatriz do Carmo Dias, Alessandra Pavan Lamarca, Douglas Terra Machado, Vinicius Prata Kloh, Fabíola Marques de Carvalho and Ana Tereza Ribeiro Vasconcelos
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:20
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  31. Methane emission from enteric rumen fermentation is a main source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission and a major concern for global warming.

    Authors: Tenzin Tseten, Rey Anthony Sanjorjo, Jong-Wook Son, Keun Sik Baik, Janine I. Berdos, Seon-Ho Kim, Sang-Hwal Yoon, Min-Kyoung Kang, Moonhyuk Kwon, Sang-Suk Lee and Seon-Won Kim
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:19
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  32. The development, progression, and dissemination of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) are determined by interlinked human, animal, and environmental drivers, which pose severe risks to human and livestock health. ...

    Authors: Alexandru S. Barcan, Joseph L. Humble, Sandeep Kasaragod, Mohammad Saiful Islam Sajib, Rares A. Barcan, Philip McGinnity, Timothy J. Welch, Brendan Robertson, Emanuel Vamanu, Antonella Bacigalupo, Martin S. Llewellyn and Francisca Samsing
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:18
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  33. Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) affects up to 30% of piglets in a litter. Piglets exposed to IUGR prioritize brain development during gestation, resulting in a higher brain-to-liver weight ratio (BrW/LW...

    Authors: Roberta Ruggeri, Giuseppe Bee, Federico Correa, Paolo Trevisi and Catherine Ollagnier
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:17
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  34. Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) remains a significant health and economic problem to the dairy cattle industry. Multiple risk factors contribute to BRD susceptibility including the bacterial pathobionts Mannheim...

    Authors: Ruth Eunice Centeno-Delphia, Erica A. Long, Audrey C. Ellis, Sarah Hofmann, Kara Mosier, Noelmi Ulloa, Johnnie Junior Cheng, Andrew Richards, Jacquelyn P. Boerman, Jennifer Koziol, Mohit S. Verma and Timothy A. Johnson
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:16
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  35. Genome-resolved metagenomics, based on shotgun sequencing, has become a powerful strategy for investigating animal-associated bacterial communities, due its heightened capability for delivering detailed taxono...

    Authors: Mauricio Hernández, Jorge Langa, Ostaizka Aizpurua, Yendi E. Navarro-Noya and Antton Alberdi
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:15
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  36. Innovations to establish agricultural value chains utilising side streams and their reintegration into the feed and food supply are of great importance. Recyclates derived from biomass and waste are therefore ...

    Authors: Henry Reyer, Manfred Mielenz, Gürbüz Daş, Cornelia C. Metges and Klaus Wimmers
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:14
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  37. There is a growing interest in uncovering the factors that shape microbiome composition due to its association with complex phenotypic traits in livestock. Host genetic variation is increasingly recognized as ...

    Authors: Lamiae Azouggagh, Noelia Ibáñez-Escriche, Marina Martínez-Álvaro, Luis Varona, Joaquim Casellas, Sara Negro and Cristina Casto-Rebollo
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:13
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  38. Environmental enrichment (EE) is commonly included as an important component of animal housing to promote well being of laboratory animals; however, much remains to be learned about the impact of chewable form...

    Authors: Mark Wulczynski, Stephen P. J. Brooks, Judy Green, Fernando Matias, Martin Kalmokoff, Julia M. Green-Johnson and Sandra T. Clarke
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:12
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  40. As the pet population grows, there is increasing attention on the health and well-being of companion animals. Weaning, a common challenge for young mammals, often leads to issues such as diarrhea, growth retar...

    Authors: Hong Zhang, Yang Ren, Siyu Wei, Hongli Jin, Yizhen Wang and Mingliang Jin
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:10
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  41. Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) is a major threat to swine industry worldwide, especially virulent variants arising during the last years, such as Spanish PRRSV-1 Rosalia strain. Th...

    Authors: Pau Obregon-Gutierrez, Martí Cortey, Gerard E. Martín-Valls, Hepzibar Clilverd, Florencia Correa-Fiz, Virginia Aragón and Enric Mateu
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:9
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  42. A. muciniphila (AKK) has attracted extensive research interest as a potential next-generation probiotics, but its role in intestinal pathology is remains unclear. Herein, this study was conducted to investigate t...

    Authors: Kunhong Xie, Weidong Cai, Lingjie Li, Bing Yu, Yuheng Luo, Zhiqing Huang, Xiangbing Mao, Jie Yu, Ping Zheng, Hui Yan, Hua Li and Jun He
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:8
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  43. Probiotics as green inputs have been reported to regulate metabolism and immunity of fish. However, the mechanisms by which probiotics improve growth and health of fish are unclear. Therefore, the aim of this ...

    Authors: Ming Li, Hui Liang, Jian Zhang, Jie Chen, Shichang Xu, Wenhao Zhou, Qianwen Ding, Yalin Yang, Zhen Zhang, Yuanyuan Yao, Chao Ran and Zhigang Zhou
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:7
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  44. African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) is a significant reservoir host for many zoonotic and parasitic infections in Africa. These include a range of viruses and pathogenic bacteria, such as tick-borne rickettsial org...

    Authors: Richard Nyamota, Earl A. Middlebrook, Hussein M. Abkallo, James Akoko, Francis Gakuya, Lillian Wambua, Bernard Ronoh, Isaac Lekolool, Athman Mwatondo, Mathew Muturi, Bernard Bett, Jeanne M. Fair and Andrew W. Bartlow
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:6
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  45. In holobiont, microbiota is known to play a central role on the health and immunity of its host. Then, understanding the microbiota, its dynamic according to the environmental conditions and its link to the im...

    Authors: Valérie Perez, Viviane Boulo, Julien De Lorgeril, Dominique Pham, Dominique Ansquer, Gwenola Plougoulen, Valentine Ballan, Jean-Sébastien Lam, Océane Romatif, Jeremy Le Luyer, Corinne Falchetto, Caline Basset, Stanley Flohr, Moana Maamaatuaiahutapu, Marc André Lafille, Christophe Lau…
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:5
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  46. Cows that develop metritis experience dysbiosis of their uterine microbiome, where opportunistic pathogens overtake uterine commensals. An effective immune response is critical for maintaining uterine health. ...

    Authors: S. Casaro, J. G. Prim, T. D. Gonzalez, F. Cunha, A. C. M. Silva, H. Yu, R. S. Bisinotto, R. C. Chebel, J. E. P. Santos, C. D. Nelson, S. J. Jeon, R. C. Bicalho, J. P. Driver and Klibs N. Galvão
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:4
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  47. Cryptosporidiosis is a diarrheal disease that commonly affects calves under 6 weeks old. The causative agent, Cryptosporidium parvum, has been associated with the abundance of specific taxa in the faecal microbio...

    Authors: M. F. Hares, B. E. Griffiths, L. Barningham, E. E. Vamos, R. Gregory, J. S. Duncan, G. Oikonomou, C. J. Stewart and J. L. Coombes
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:3
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  49. Evolutionary tradeoffs between life-history strategies are important in animal evolution. Because microbes can influence multiple aspects of host physiology, including growth rate and susceptibility to disease...

    Authors: Hannah E. Epstein, Tanya Brown, Ayọmikun O. Akinrinade, Ryan McMinds, F. Joseph Pollock, Dylan Sonett, Styles Smith, David G. Bourne, Carolina S. Carpenter, Rob Knight, Bette L. Willis, Mónica Medina, Joleah B. Lamb, Rebecca Vega Thurber and Jesse R. Zaneveld
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2025 7:1
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  50. Species host diverse microbial communities that can impact their digestion and health, which has led to much interest in understanding the factors that influence their microbiota. We studied the developmental,...

    Authors: Ammon Corl, Motti Charter, Gabe Rozman, Sondra Turjeman, Sivan Toledo, Pauline L. Kamath, Wayne M. Getz, Ran Nathan and Rauri C. K. Bowie
    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2024 6:77
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