ReviewCurrent opinion in microbiology2019
Scales of persistence: transmission and the microbiome.
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28 citing papers in PubMed.
- Crosstalk in the cold: host-microbe interactions in insect diapause.Annals of the Entomological Society of America · 2026Review
- Within-host microbial selection and multiple microbial generations buffer the loss of host fitness under environmental change.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2025Article
- Human microbiome acquisition and transmission.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2025Review
- PelD is required downstream of c-di-GMP for host specialization of Pseudomonas lurida.BMC microbiology · 2025Article
- Little Peacemakers: Microbes Can Promote Nonviolent Conflict Resolution by Their Hosts.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Microbiome transfer from native to invasive species may increase invasion risk.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
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- Social and environmental transmission spread different sets of gut microbes in wild mice.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Article
- Ecological drift during colonization drives within-host and between-host heterogeneity in an animal-associated symbiont.PLoS biology · 2024Article
- Consistent spatial patterns in microbial taxa of red squirrel gut microbiomes.Environmental microbiology reports · 2024Article
- Shotgun Metagenomics Reveals Minor Micro"International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- From Alien Species to Alien Communities: Host- and Habitat-Associated Microbiomes in an Alien Amphibian.Microbial ecology · 2023Article
- Prolonged delays in human microbiota transmission after a controlled antibiotic perturbation.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Sources of Fungal Symbionts in the Microbiome of a Mobile Insect Host, Spodoptera frugiperda.Microbial ecology · 2023Article
- Social transmission of bacterial symbionts homogenizes the microbiome within and across generations of group-living spiders.ISME communications · 2023Article
- A Selective Bottleneck During Host Entry Drives the Evolution of New Legume Symbionts.Molecular biology and evolution · 2023Article
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- Population bottlenecks constrain host microbiome diversity and genetic variation impeding fitness.PLoS genetics · 2022Article
- Bowel Movement: Integrating Host Mobility and Microbial Transmission Across Host Taxa.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Historically microbiomes have been studied on the scale of the individual host, giving little consideration for the role of extra-host microbial populations in microbiome assembly. However, work in recent years has brought to light the importance of inter-host transmission and its influence on microbiome composition and dynamics. We now appreciate that microbiomes do not exist in isolation, but exchange constituents with the microbial communities of other hosts and the environment. Moving forward, fully understanding the role of transmission in microbiome assembly and dynamics will require a high-resolution view of the colonization and persistence patterns of particular microbial lineages (i.e. strains) across individuals and the environment. Yet, accomplishing this level of resolution will be an immense challenge, requiring improved sampling and bioinformatics approaches as well as employment of tractable experimental models. Insight gained from these investigations will contribute to our understanding of microbiome composition and variation, and lead to improved strategies for modulating microbiomes to improve human health.
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