Co-evolution in context: The importance of studying gut microbiomes in wild animals
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...…goal for evolutionary biology, ecology, and conservation Frontiers in Microbiology | www.frontiersin.org 7 May 2018 | Volume 9 | Article 803 (Amato, 2013; Hird, 2017; Kohl, 2017), but the study of microbiomes is complicated by numerous sources of bias that can impact any step of the…...
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...While most microbiome research has focused on humans and model organisms, microbiome studies in wildlife have recently gained popularity in light of the potential power of the microbiome to shape host evolution and ecology (e.g., Ley et al., 2008; Amato, 2013; Hird, 2017)....
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...Many studies of wild mammal microbiomes have sampled feces as a proxy for the gut microbiome (Schwab et al., 2009; Amato, 2013; Amato et al., 2014; Kohl et al., 2015; Menke et al., 2015; Phillips et al., 2017)....
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...This problem has been suggested before (Amato 2013), yet there is still a substantial lack of studies that have attempted to characterize the enteric microbial communities in hosts within a natural environment (Tables 1 and S1, Supporting information)....
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