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Why Evolve Reliance on the Microbiome for Timing of Ontogeny?
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- From gut to gamete: how the microbiome influences fertility and preconception health.Microbiome · 2025Review
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- Intestinal microbial circadian rhythms drive sex differences in host immunity and metabolism.iScience · 2023Article
- Species-specific model to predict amphibian metamorphosis.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Maternal provisioning of an obligate symbiont in a sponge.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Phyllosphere microbial associations improve plant reproductive success.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Article
- Drosophila melanogaster microbiome is shaped by strict filtering and neutrality along a latitudinal cline.Molecular ecology · 2022Article
- Natural selection for imprecise vertical transmission in host-microbiota systems.Nature ecology & evolution · 2022Article
- The soil microbiome increases plant survival and modifies interactions with root endosymbionts in the field.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- The composition of human vaginal microbiota transferred at birth affects offspring health in a mouse model.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Bacterial community dynamics during embryonic development of the little skate (Leucoraja erinacea).Animal microbiome · 2021Article
- The study of host-microbiome (co)evolution across levels of selection.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Symbiosis and stress: how plant microbiomes affect host evolution.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Review
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Abstract
The timing of life history events has important fitness consequences. Since the 1950s, researchers have combined first principles and data to predict the optimal timing of life history transitions. Recently, a striking mystery has emerged. Such transitions can be shaped by a completely different branch of the tree of life: species in the microbiome. Probing these interactions using testable predictions from evolutionary theory could illuminate whether and how host-microbiome integrated life histories can evolve and be maintained. Beyond advancing fundamental science, this research program could yield important applications. In an age of microbiome engineering, understanding the contexts that lead to microbiota signaling shaping ontogeny could offer novel mechanisms for manipulations to increase yield in agriculture by manipulating plant responses to stressful environments, or to reduce pathogen transmission by affecting vector efficiency. We combine theory and evidence to illuminate the essential questions underlying the existence of
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