ArticleGut microbes2016
Do microbiotas warm their hosts?
Article in Gut microbes, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
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- Heat stress-induced gut dysbiosis and multi-organ injury: mechanisms and therapeutic modulation.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026Review
- Gut microbial contributions to thermogenesis.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Review
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- Targeted Screening of Fiber Degrading Bacteria with Probiotic Function in Herbivore Feces.Probiotics and antimicrobial proteins · 2025Article
- The Importance of Maintaining and Improving a Healthy Gut Microbiota in Athletes as a Preventive Strategy to Improve Heat Tolerance and Acclimatization.Microorganisms · 2024Review
- Biodecomposition withAIMS microbiology · 2024Review
- Gut microbiome biogeography in reindeer supersedes millennia of ecological and evolutionary separation.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2023Article
- Microbial thermogenesis is dependent on ATP concentrations and the protein kinases ArcB, GlnL, and YccC.PLoS biology · 2023Article
- Energy metabolism and thermoregulation during sleep in young and old females.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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- Response of Ruminal Microbiota-Host Gene Interaction to High-Altitude Environments in Tibetan Sheep.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
- Blowing Hot and Cold: Body Temperature and the Microbiome.mSystems · 2021Article
- Rapidly declining body temperature in a tropical human population.Science advances · 2020Article
- Association of body temperature with obesity. The CoLaus study.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2019Article
- The influence of the host microbiome on 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)-induced hyperthermia and vice versa.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- The hologenome concept of evolution after 10 years.Microbiome · 2018Review
- Linking Gut Microbiota to Colorectal Cancer.Journal of Cancer · 2017Review
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Abstract
All natural animals and plants are holobionts, consisting of a host and abundant and diverse microbiota. During the last 20 years, numerous studies have shown that microbiotas participate in the ability of their hosts to survive and reproduce in a particular environment in many ways, including contributing to their morphology, development, behavior, physiology, resistance to disease and to their evolution. Here we posit another possible contribution of microbiotas to their hosts, which has been underexplored - the generation of heat. We estimate that microbial metabolism in the human gut, for example, produces 61 kcal/h, which corresponds to approximately 70% of the total heat production of an average person at rest.
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