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40 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 87 citations in OpenAlex.
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- A molecular inventory of the faecal microbiomes of 23 marsupial species.Microbial genomics · 2026Article
- Differential Assembly of Core and Non-Core Host-Microbe Network Structures Along a Land-Use Change Gradient.Ecology letters · 2025Article
- Climate, diet, and nutrition drive gut microbiome variation in a fruit-specialist primate.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Tibetan wild ass,Journal of equine science · 2025Review
- Global meta-analysis reveals the drivers of gut microbiome variation across vertebrates.iMetaOmics · 2024Article
- Reversing the decline of threatened koala (Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- The Utility of the Koala Scat: A Scoping Review.Biology · 2024Article
- What Can the Gut Microbiota of Animals Teach Us about the Relationship between Nutrition and Burden of Lifestyle Diseases?Nutrients · 2024Review
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- Association of maternal genetics with the gut microbiome and eucalypt diet selection in captive koalas.PeerJ · 2024Article
- Gut microbiota in the short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus Aculeatus) shows stability across gestation.MicrobiologyOpen · 2023Article
- Gut Microbiome Profiling of the Endangered Southern Greater Glider (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Influence of scat ageing on the gut microbiome: how old is too old?BMC genomics · 2023Article
- Outcomes for an arboreal folivore after rehabilitation and implications for management.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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7 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundThe diet of the koala (
methodThe 16S rRNA gene was used to characterise the composition and diversity of faecal bacterial communities from a wild koala population (
resultsAlpha diversity indices indicated consistently and significantly lower diversity and richness in koalas eating DISCUSSION: We show that diet differences, even those caused by differential consumption of the foliage of two species from the same plant genus, can profoundly affect the gut microbiome of a specialist folivorous mammal, even amongst individuals in the same population. We identify key microbiota associated with each diet type and predict functions within the microbial community based on 80 previously identified
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