Hanna M. Bensch

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: This work experimentally manipulated conspecific male density and species composition to investigate how ecological conditions affect female survival in a sexually dimorphic insect, the banded demoiselle, and suggests that reproductive interference competition between con‐ and heterospecific males might indirectly facilitate female survival by reducing mating harassment from conspecial males.

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: Combining field surveys, behavioral observations, experimental manipulations of species frequencies and densities, and simulation modeling, it is demonstrated that species coexistence is shaped by the opposing forces of ecological drift and negative frequency dependence, generated by interference competition.

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.