Andres Gomez

TL;DR: The findings indicate that mammalian gut microbiome plasticity in response to dietary shifts over both the lifespan of an individual host and the evolutionary history of a given host species is constrained by host physiological evolution, and the gut microbiome cannot be considered separately from host physiology when describing host nutritional strategies and the emergence of host dietary niches.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated for the first time that HLA genes in association with the gut microbiome may determine the immune environment and that the Gut microbiome might be a potential biomarker as well as contributor for susceptibility to arthritis.

TL;DR: Gut bacterial communities in the BaAka rainforest hunter-gatherers and their agriculturalist Bantu neighbors in the Central African Republic are explored to demonstrate gradients of traditional subsistence patterns in two neighboring African groups and highlight the adaptability of the microbiome in response to host ecology.

TL;DR: The most heritable oral bacteria were not associated with caries state, did not tend to co-occur with other taxa, and decreased in abundance with age and sugar consumption frequency, suggesting cariogenic taxa are likely not controlled by genetic factors.

TL;DR: By characterizing the interplay between environment, behaviour, diet and symbiotic gut microbes, this work presents an alternative perspective on primate ecology and on the forces that shape the gut microbiomes of wild primates from an evolutionary context.