ReviewmSphere2018
Bats Are an Untapped System for Understanding Microbiome Evolution in Mammals.
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29 citing papers in PubMed.
- Astrovirus infection alters gut microbial communities in a widespread neotropical bat across human-modified landscapes.BMC microbiology · 2026Article
- Microbiome Stability in Wild and Rehabilitated Insectivorous Bats Revealed by Shotgun Metagenomics.Microorganisms · 2026Article
- Systematic multi-reference vertebrate ACE2 sequence similarity analysis predicts species susceptibility to SARS-related sarbecoviruses.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Bacterial Composition Across Bat Species: A Human Health Perspective.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Review
- Evaluation of Oxford Nanopore Technologies MinION Sequencer as a Novel Short Amplicon Metabarcoding Tool Using Arthropod Mock Sample and Irish Bat Diet Characterisation.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- The Gut Microbiota of the Greater Horseshoe Bat Confers Rapidly Corresponding Immune Cells in Mice.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Delayed feeding disrupts diurnal oscillations in the gut microbiome of a neotropical bat in captivity.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2025Article
- Microbial community dynamics in blood, faeces and oral secretions of neotropical bats in Casanare, Colombia.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The role of animal hosts in shaping gut microbiome variation.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Review
- The role of host traits and geography in shaping the gut microbiome of insectivorous bats.mSphere · 2024Article
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- The Mycobiome of Bats in the American Southwest Is Structured by Geography, Bat Species, and Behavior.Microbial ecology · 2023Article
- Assessing the threat of bat-associated fungal pathogens.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2023Review
- Serological evidence of virus infection inFrontiers in public health · 2023Article
- In sickness and in health: the dynamics of the fruit bat gut microbiota under a bacterial antigen challenge and its association with the immune response.Frontiers in immunology · 2023Article
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- The evolution of antimicrobial peptides in Chiroptera.Frontiers in immunology · 2023Article
- Trends in Bacterial Pathogens of Bats: Global Distribution and Knowledge Gaps.Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2023Review
- First data on bacteria associated with bat ectoparasites collected in Kharkiv oblast, Northeastern Ukraine.Parasites & vectors · 2022Article
- An overview of bats microbiota and its implication in transmissible diseases.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Review
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Abstract
Mammals evolved in a microbial world, and consequently, microbial symbionts have played a role in their evolution. An exciting new subdiscipline of metagenomics considers the ways in which microbes, particularly those found in the gut, have facilitated the ecological and phylogenetic radiation of mammals. However, the vast majority of such studies focus on domestic animals, laboratory models, or charismatic megafauna (e.g., pandas and chimpanzees). The result is a plethora of studies covering few taxa across the mammal tree of life, leaving broad patterns of microbiome function and evolution unclear. Wildlife microbiome research urgently needs a model system in which to test hypotheses about metagenomic involvement in host ecology and evolution. We propose that bats (Order: Chiroptera) represent a model system ideal for comparative microbiome research, affording opportunities to examine host phylogeny, diet, and other natural history characteristics in relation to the evolution of the gut microbiome.
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