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Gillian A. O. Britton
Researcher at Dartmouth College
Publications - 2
Citations - 261
Gillian A. O. Britton is an academic researcher from Dartmouth College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Microbiome & Ecological niche. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications receiving 168 citations.
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Evolutionary trends in host physiology outweigh dietary niche in structuring primate gut microbiomes.
Katherine R. Amato,Jon G. Sanders,Se Jin Song,Michael Nute,Jessica L. Metcalf,Luke R. Thompson,James T. Morton,Amnon Amir,Valerie J. McKenzie,Gregory Humphrey,Grant Gogul,James Gaffney,Andrea L. Baden,Gillian A. O. Britton,Frank P. Cuozzo,Anthony Di Fiore,Nathaniel J. Dominy,Tony L. Goldberg,Andres Gomez,Martin M. Kowalewski,Rebecca J. Lewis,Andrés Link,Michelle L. Sauther,Stacey R. Tecot,Bryan A. White,Karen E. Nelson,Rebecca M. Stumpf,Rob Knight,Steven R. Leigh +28 more
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.
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Convergence of human and Old World monkey gut microbiomes demonstrates the importance of human ecology over phylogeny.
Katherine R. Amato,Elizabeth K. Mallott,Daniel McDonald,Nathaniel J. Dominy,Tony L. Goldberg,Joanna E. Lambert,Larissa Swedell,Jessica L. Metcalf,Andres Gomez,Gillian A. O. Britton,Rebecca M. Stumpf,Steven R. Leigh,Rob Knight +12 more
TL;DR: Overall, these findings show that diet, ecology, and physiological adaptations are more important than host-microbe co-diversification in shaping the human microbiome, providing a key foundation for comparative analyses of the role of the microbiome in human biology and health.