ArticlePloS one2020
Gut microbiome shifts with urbanization and potentially facilitates a zoonotic pathogen in a wading bird.
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- Integrating the Microbiome Into Infection Ecology and Evolution in Wild Animals.Molecular ecology · 2026Review
- Gut Microbiome Variations in Herring Gulls (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Microbial community composition variation in relation to malaria infections in Junco hyemalis.PloS one · 2026Article
- Gut microbiome variation in juvenile blue tits in a European urban mosaic.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Host Diet Preference Drives Diversity and Composition of Gut Microbiota in Captive Birds.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- An Early-Life Disruption of Gut Microbiota Has Opposing Effects on Parasite Resistance in Two Host Species.Molecular ecology · 2025Article
- Urbanization and the Gut Microbiome: Insights From the Anna's Hummingbird (Calypte anna) in California.Integrative and comparative biology · 2025Article
- Double-Edged Sword: Urbanization and Response of Amniote Gut Microbiome in the Anthropocene.Microorganisms · 2025Review
- A Preliminary Investigation of the Gastrointestinal Bacterial Microbiomes of Barred Owls (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
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- Comparative Analysis of Gut Bacteria of Four Waterbirds Species in Taolimiao-Alashan Nur (T-A Nur) in Erdos Relic Gull National Nature Reserve, Inner Mongolia, China.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Exploring Bird Gut Microbiota Through Opportunistic Fecal Sampling: Ecological and Evolutionary Perspectives.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Exploring stress and morphology in two songbird species across urban, agricultural, and natural habitats on San Cristobal Island, Galapagos.BMC zoology · 2025Article
- Rusa deer microbiota: the importance of preliminary data analysis for meaningful diversity comparisons.International microbiology : the official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology · 2025Article
- Predictive multi-omic biomarkers for urban zoonotic spillover detection: an integrative review.Frontiers in public health · 2025Review
- Fitness consequences of anthropogenic subsidies for a partially migratory wading bird.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
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Abstract
Microbial communities in the gastrointestinal tract influence many aspects of host health, including metabolism and susceptibility to pathogen colonization. These relationships and the environmental and individual factors that drive them are relatively unexplored for free-living wildlife. We quantified the relationships between urban habitat use, diet, and age with microbiome composition and diversity for 82 American white ibises (Eudocimus albus) captured along an urban gradient in south Florida and tested whether gut microbial diversity was associated with Salmonella enterica prevalence. Shifts in community composition were significantly associated with urban land cover and, to a lesser extent, diets higher in provisioned food. The diversity of genera was negatively associated with community composition associated with urban land cover, positively associated with age class, and negatively associated with Salmonella shedding. Our results suggest that shifts in both habitat use and diet for urban birds significantly alter gut microbial composition and diversity in ways that may influence health and pathogen susceptibility as species adapt to urban habitats.
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