ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2020
A bird's-eye view of phylosymbiosis: weak signatures of phylosymbiosis among all 15 species of cranes.
Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
38 citing papers in PubMed, 74 citations in OpenAlex.
- Host-Associated Differentiation of Gut Microbiota Among Four Crane Species Wintering in Rice Paddies Around Poyang Lake.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Ecological and evolutionary drivers of trait-based symbiosis and phylosymbiosis in avian gut microbiota.Science China. Life sciences · 2026Article
- The elephant (bird) in the room: unknown mechanisms and unresolved impacts of low DNA yields in avian microbiome research.Animal microbiome · 2026Article
- Functional traits shape gut microbial assembly beyond phylogeny in estuarine fish.Science China. Life sciences · 2026Article
- Ephemeral signatures of phylosymbiosis in dermal microbiomes within the requiem shark family (Carcharhinidae).Access microbiology · 2026Article
- Migration-driven microbial adaptation and ecological spillover in birds.ISME communications · 2026Review
- Host Diet Preference Drives Diversity and Composition of Gut Microbiota in Captive Birds.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- The Impact of Whole-Animal Fluid Preservation on the Observed Gut Microbiome of Vertebrates: Implications for the Use of Museum Specimens in Microbiome Research.Molecular ecology resources · 2025Article
- Phylogenetic and ecological drivers of the avian lung mycobiome and its potentially pathogenic component.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Exploring Bird Gut Microbiota Through Opportunistic Fecal Sampling: Ecological and Evolutionary Perspectives.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Metabolic pathways associated with Firmicutes prevalence in the gut of multiple livestock animals and humans.Animal microbiome · 2025Article
- Uropygial gland microbiota of nearctic-neotropical migrants vary with season and migration distance.Animal microbiome · 2025Article
- Breed-specific gut microbiota and enterotype divergence in Chinese indigenous ducks.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Environmental microbial reservoir influences the bacterial communities associated with Hydra oligactis.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The Influence of Microbiota on Wild Birds' Parental Coprophagy Behavior: Current Advances and Future Research Directions.Microorganisms · 2024Review
- The Role of Geography, Diet, and Host Phylogeny on the Gut Microbiome in the Hawaiian Honeycreeper Radiation.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Critical complex network structures in animal gastrointestinal tract microbiomes.Animal microbiome · 2024Article
- Association between the gut microbiome and carotenoid plumage phenotype in an avian hybrid zone.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Evolutionary history influences the microbiomes of a female symbiotic reproductive organ in cephalopods.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2024Article
- Host species and habitat shape fish-associated bacterial communities: phylosymbiosis between fish and their microbiome.Microbiome · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
In numerous animal clades, the evolutionary history of host species drives patterns of gut microbial community structure, resulting in more divergent microbiota with increasing phylogenetic distance between hosts. This phenomenon, termed phylosymbiosis, has been observed in diverse evolutionary lineages, but has been difficult to detect in birds. Previous tests of phylosymbiosis among birds have been conducted using wild individuals, and thus interspecific differences in diet and environment may have masked a phylogenetic signal. Therefore, we tested for phylosymbiosis among all 15 species of cranes (family Gruidae) housed in the same captive environment and maintained on identical diets. 16S rRNA sequencing revealed that crane species harbour distinct gut microbiota. Overall, we detected marginally significant patterns of phylosymbiosis, the strength of which was increased when including the estimates of absolute microbial abundance (rather than relative abundance) derived from microbial densities determined by flow cytometry. Using this approach, we detected the statistically significant signatures of phylosymbiosis only after removing male cranes from our analysis, suggesting that using mixed-sex animal cohorts may prevent the detection of phylosymbiosis. Though weak compared with mammals (and especially insects), these results provide evidence of phylosymbiosis in birds. We discuss the potential differences between birds and mammals, such as transmission routes and host filtering, that may underlie the differences in the strength of phylosymbiosis.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.