ArticleEcology and evolution2021
Assessing age, breeding stage, and mating activity as drivers of variation in the reproductive microbiome of female tree swallows.
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- The reproductive microbiome and maternal transmission of microbiota via eggs in Sceloporus virgatus.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2024Article
- Canaries' Microbiota: The Gut Bacterial Communities along One Female Reproductive Cycle.Microorganisms · 2023Article
- Wild microbiomes of striped plateau lizards vary with reproductive season, sex, and body size.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Cloacal microbiomes of sympatric and allopatric Sceloporus lizards vary with environment and host relatedness.PloS one · 2022Article
- Assessing age, breeding stage, and mating activity as drivers of variation in the reproductive microbiome of female tree swallows.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
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Abstract
Sexually transmitted microbes are hypothesized to influence the evolution of reproductive strategies. Though frequently discussed in this context, our understanding of the reproductive microbiome is quite nascent. Indeed, testing this hypothesis first requires establishing a baseline understanding of the temporal dynamics of the reproductive microbiome and of how individual variation in reproductive behavior and age influence the assembly and maintenance of the reproductive microbiome as a whole. Here, we ask how mating activity, breeding stage, and age influence the reproductive microbiome. We use observational and experimental approaches to explain variation in the cloacal microbiome of free-living, female tree swallows (
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