Adriaan Olivier

TL;DR: There was a five‐fold difference in juvenile growth during development, and growth during the first week of age was strongly positively correlated with the abundance of the genus Bacteroides and negatively correlated with Akkermansia.

TL;DR: Identifying the origins of pathobionts in neonates and the factors that subsequently influence the establishment of diverse gut microbiota may be key to understanding dysbiosis and host development.

TL;DR: The authors used 16S rRNA gene sequencing to describe the successional development of the faecal microbiota in juvenile ostriches over their first three months of life, during which time a five-fold difference in weight was observed.

TL;DR: This work used 16S rRNA gene sequencing to describe the successional development of the faecal microbiota in juvenile ostriches over their first three months of life, during which time a five-fold difference in weight was observed.

TL;DR: Examining the microbiome associated with dysbiosis in different parts of the gastrointestinal tract in a long-lived bird with high juvenile mortality, the ostrich, showed that pathobionts were already present shortly after hatching and proliferated in individuals with low diversity, resulting in mortality weeks later.