ReviewThe Journal of experimental biology2021
The call of the wild: using non-model systems to investigate microbiome-behaviour relationships.
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- Getting Over It: Maternal Stress and Gut Microbiome Manipulations Do Not Affect Rates of Offspring Habituation During Long Bouts of Stress.Journal of experimental zoology. Part A, Ecological and integrative physiology · 2026Article
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- Gut microbiota diversity affects fish behaviour and is influenced by host genetics and early rearing conditions.Open biology · 2025Article
- Uropygial gland microbiota of nearctic-neotropical migrants vary with season and migration distance.Animal microbiome · 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
- Limited gut bacterial response of tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) to dietary manipulation and captivity.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2024Article
- Study of tree shrew biology and models: A booming and prosperous field for biomedical research.Zoological research · 2024Review
- Stopover habitat selection drives variation in the gut microbiome composition and pathogen acquisition by migrating shorebirds.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2024Article
- Seasonal restructuring facilitates compositional convergence of gut microbiota in free-ranging rodents.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2023Article
- Multiscale models driving hypothesis and theory-based research in microbial ecology.Interface focus · 2023Review
- Social transmission of bacterial symbionts homogenizes the microbiome within and across generations of group-living spiders.ISME communications · 2023Article
- Gut microbiome diversity and composition is associated with exploratory behavior in a wild-caught songbird.Animal microbiome · 2023Article
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- Omnipose: a high-precision morphology-independent solution for bacterial cell segmentation.Nature methods · 2022Article
- Maternal antibiotics disrupt microbiome, behavior, and temperature regulation in unexposed infant mice.Developmental psychobiology · 2022Article
- Maternal stress and the maternal microbiome have sex-specific effects on offspring development and aggressive behavior in Siberian hamsters (Phodopus sungorus).Hormones and behavior · 2022Article
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Abstract
On and within most sites across an animal's body live complex communities of microorganisms. These microorganisms perform a variety of important functions for their hosts, including communicating with the brain, immune system and endocrine axes to mediate physiological processes and affect individual behaviour. Microbiome research has primarily focused on the functions of the microbiome within the gastrointestinal tract (gut microbiome) using biomedically relevant laboratory species (i.e. model organisms). These studies have identified important connections between the gut microbiome and host immune, neuroendocrine and nervous systems, as well as how these connections, in turn, influence host behaviour and health. Recently, the field has expanded beyond traditional model systems as it has become apparent that the microbiome can drive differences in behaviour and diet, play a fundamental role in host fitness and influence community-scale dynamics in wild populations. In this Review, we highlight the value of conducting hypothesis-driven research in non-model organisms and the benefits of a comparative approach that assesses patterns across different species or taxa. Using social behaviour as an intellectual framework, we review the bidirectional relationship between the gut microbiome and host behaviour, and identify understudied mechanisms by which these effects may be mediated.
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