ArticleMicrobial ecology2020
(My Microbiome) Would Walk 10,000 miles: Maintenance and Turnover of Microbial Communities in Introduced Dung Beetles.
Article in Microbial ecology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
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- Antifungal capabilities of gut microbial communities of three dung beetle species (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae).Die Naturwissenschaften · 2024Article
- Vertically inherited microbiota and environment modifying behaviours conceal genetic variation in dung beetle life history.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Sexually transmitted mutualist nematodes shape host growth across dung beetle species.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Vertically inherited microbiota and environment-modifying behaviors indirectly shape the exaggeration of secondary sexual traits in the gazelle dung beetle.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Larval gut microbiome of Pelidnota luridipes (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae): high bacterial diversity, different metabolic profiles on gut chambers and species with probiotic potential.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2022Article
- Phylosymbiotic Structures of the Microbiota in Mollitrichosiphum tenuicorpus (Hemiptera: Aphididae: Greenideinae).Microbial ecology · 2022Article
- Enrichment of Anaerobic Microbial Communities from Midgut and Hindgut of Sun Beetle Larvae (Microorganisms · 2022Article
- Environment and Co-occurring Native Mussel Species, but Not Host Genetics, Impact the Microbiome of a Freshwater Invasive Species (Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Host specificity of the gut microbiome.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2021Review
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- Hindgut microbiota reflects different digestive strategies in dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae).Applied and environmental microbiology · 2021Article
- The Phylosymbiosis Pattern Between the Fig Wasps of the Same Genus and Their Associated Microbiota.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Host-associated microbes facilitate diverse biotic and abiotic interactions between hosts and their environments. Experimental alterations of host-associated microbial communities frequently decrease host fitness, yet much less is known about if and how host-microbiome interactions are altered by natural perturbations, such as introduction events. Here, we begin to assess this question in Onthophagus dung beetles, a species-rich and geographically widely distributed genus whose members rely on vertically transmitted microbiota to support normal development. Specifically, we investigated to what extent microbiome community membership shifts during host introduction events and the relative significance of ancestral associations and novel environmental conditions in the structuring of microbial communities of introduced host species. Our results demonstrate that both evolutionary history and local environmental forces structure the microbial communities of these animals, but that their relative importance is shaped by the specific circumstances that characterize individual introduction events. Furthermore, we identify microbial taxa such as Dysgonomonas that may constitute members of the core Onthophagus microbiome regardless of host population or species, but also Wolbachia which associates with Onthophagus beetles in a species or even population-specific manner. We discuss the implications of our results for our understanding of the evolutionary ecology of symbiosis in dung beetles and beyond.
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