ReviewFrontiers in microbiology2020
The Effects of Temperature on Animal Gut Microbiomes.
Review in Frontiers in microbiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 158 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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158 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 314 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Taxonomy, tissue, and habitat influence mollusk microbial communities.The ISME journal · 2026Pooled it
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- Gut microbiota as key mediators of animal acclimation to temperature changes: mechanisms and interventions.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2026Review
- How Host Phylogeny, Diet, and Habitat Affect Gut Microbial Diversity in Wild Snakes.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Effects of Hydrogen-Rich Water on Juvenile Largemouth Bass (Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Temperature at parental generation affects bacterial communities associated with offspring for both host and parasitoid.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2026Article
- Lighting the way: how the squid-Vibrio model can inform thermal impacts on symbiotic dynamics.The Journal of experimental biology · 2026Review
- The effects of housing temperature on mouse physiology and implications for disease modeling.Lab animal · 2026Review
- Characterising the gut microbiome of six Australian marsupials reveals captivity constrains microbiome.Animal microbiome · 2026Article
- How Environmental and Ecological Stressors Reprogram Honey Bee Chemistry Through the Microbiome-Metabolome Axis.Insects · 2026Review
- Climate Change, Epigenetics, Microbiota, and Health.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Review
- Integrating the Microbiome Into Infection Ecology and Evolution in Wild Animals.Molecular ecology · 2026Review
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- The developmental trajectory and maturation of the Hulunbuir sheep (Ovis aries) microbiome.Animal microbiome · 2026Article
- Sarcopenia and body temperature-the significance of interorgan metabolic networks in skeletal muscle atrophy.Endocrine journal · 2026Review
- A non-invasive method for profiling the gut microbiome and virome of honey bee queens.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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Abstract
Temperature is a prominent abiotic environmental variable that drives the adaptive trajectories of animal lineages and structures the composition of animal communities. Global temperature regimes are expected to undergo rapid shifts in the next century, yet for many animal taxa we lack an understanding of the consequences of these predicted shifts for animal populations. In this review, we synthesize recent evidence that temperature variation shapes the composition and function of animal gut microbiomes, key regulators of host physiology, with potential consequences for host population responses to climate change. Several recent studies spanning a range of animal taxa, including Chordata, Arthropoda, and Mollusca, have reported repeatable associations between temperature and the community composition and function of the gut microbiome. In several cases, the same microbiome responses to temperature have been observed across distantly related animal taxa, suggesting the existence of conserved mechanisms underlying temperature-induced microbiome plasticity. Extreme temperatures can disrupt the stability of alpha-diversity within the gut microbiomes individual hosts and generate beta-diversity among microbiomes within host populations. Microbiome states resulting from extreme temperatures have been associated, and in some cases causally linked, with both beneficial and deleterious effects on host phenotypes. We propose routes by which temperature-induced changes in the gut microbiome may impact host fitness, including effects on colonization resistance in the gut, on host energy and nutrient assimilation, and on host life history traits. Cumulatively, available data indicate that disruption of the gut microbiome may be a mechanism by which changing temperatures will impact animal fitness in wild-living populations.
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