Ostaizka Aizpurua

TL;DR: This work evaluates the performance of four primer sets targeting COI and 16S regions characterizing arthropod diversity in bat faecal samples, and investigates how metabarcoding results are affected by parameters including number of PCR replicates per sample, sequencing depth, and similarity thresholds for Operational Taxonomic Unit (OTU) clustering.

TL;DR: It is proposed that the plasticity of the gut microbiota might be an essential factor determining phenomic Plasticity of vertebrates, and that it might play a pivotal role when vertebrates acclimate and adapt to fast environmental variation.

TL;DR: An attempt to aid end‐users in designing reliable diet studies by informing them about the complexity and limitations of DNA sequencing‐based diet analyses, and encourage researchers to create and improve tools that will eventually drive this field to its maturity.

TL;DR: The results imply that M. schreibersii might be a valuable asset for biological pest suppression in a variety of agricultural productions and highlight the dynamic interplay between wildlife and agricultural systems.

TL;DR: The holo-omic approach that incorporates multi-omic data from both host and microbiota domains to untangle the interplay between the two is introduced and it is anticipated that the application of this approach can contribute to opening new research avenues and discoveries in biomedicine, biotechnology, agricultural and aquacultural sciences, nature conservation, as well as basic ecological and evolutionary research.