ReviewBioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology2019
Multidisciplinarity in Microbiome Research: A Challenge and Opportunity to Rethink Causation, Variability, and Scale.
Review in BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Host-Associated Bacterial Community Changes After Laboratory Introduction Vary With Wolbachia Presence.Environmental microbiology · 2026Article
- Current Trends and Challenges of Microbiome Research in Bladder Cancer.Current oncology reports · 2024Review
- An ode to multidisciplinarity: the 'Bacteria Orchestrate Life' international meeting.Biology open · 2024Review
- Consistent spatial patterns in microbial taxa of red squirrel gut microbiomes.Environmental microbiology reports · 2024Article
- Gnotobiotic zebrafish microbiota display inter-individual variability affecting host physiology.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
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- Multidisciplinarity Is Critical to Unlock the Full Potential of Modern Light Microscopy.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021Article
- A multi-disciplinary comparison of great ape gut microbiota in a central African forest and European zoo.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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Authors and funding
4 authors.
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Abstract
This essay, written by a biologist, a microbial ecologist, a biological anthropologist, and an anthropologist-historian, examines tensions and translations in microbiome research on animals in the laboratory and field. The authors trace how research questions and findings in the laboratory are extrapolated into the field and vice versa, and the shifting evidentiary standards that these research settings require. Showing how complexities of microbiomes challenge traditional standards of causation, the authors contend that these challenges require new approaches to inferences used in ecology, anthropology, and history. As social scientists incorporate investigations of microbial life into their human studies, microbiome researchers venture into field settings to develop mechanistic understandings about the functions of complex microbial communities. These efforts generate new possibilities for cross-fertilizations and inference frameworks to interpret microbiome findings. Microbiome research should integrate multiple scales, levels of variability, and other disciplinary approaches to tackle questions spanning conditions from the laboratory to the field.
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