ArticleBiology letters2020
Evidence supporting the microbiota-gut-brain axis in a songbird.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- What do zebra finches learn besides singing? Systematic mapping of the literature and presentation of an efficient associative learning test.Animal cognition · 2023Pooled it
- The elephant (bird) in the room: unknown mechanisms and unresolved impacts of low DNA yields in avian microbiome research.Animal microbiome · 2026Article
- Challenges associate with microbiome diversity, glucocorticoids, and condition in a wild songbird.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Microbiota-gut-brain axis in avian parenting: gut microbiome associates with nest-construction behavior and neural gene expression in a songbird.Animal microbiome · 2025Article
- Gut Microbiome-Brain Crosstalk in the Early Life of Chicken Reveals the Circadian Regulation of Key Metabolic and Immune Signaling Processes.Microorganisms · 2025Article
- Temporal patterns of gut microbiota in lemurs (Eulemur rubriventer) living in intact and disturbed habitats in a novel sample type.American journal of primatology · 2025Article
- Gut fungi of black-necked cranes (Grus nigricollis) respond to dietary changes during wintering.BMC microbiology · 2024Article
- Stopover habitat selection drives variation in the gut microbiome composition and pathogen acquisition by migrating shorebirds.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2024Article
- The gut microbiota-immune-brain axis in a wild vertebrate: dynamic interactions and health impacts.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- Gut microbiome diversity and composition is associated with exploratory behavior in a wild-caught songbird.Animal microbiome · 2023Article
- An urban diet differentially alters the gut microbiome and metabolomic profiles compared with a seed diet in mourning doves.American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology · 2022Article
- No Guts About It: Captivity, But Not Neophobia Phenotype, Influences the Cloacal Microbiome of House Sparrows (Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2022Article
- Evidence supporting the microbiota-gut-brain axis in a songbird.Biology letters · 2020Article
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Abstract
Recent research in mammals supports a link between cognitive ability and the gut microbiome, but little is known about this relationship in other taxa. In a captive population of 38 zebra finch(es) (
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