ArticleBiology letters2021
Social convergence of gut microbiomes in vampire bats.
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- Hierarchically embedded scales of movement shape the social networks of vampire bats.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Sex differences and individual variability in the captive Jamaican fruit bat (Artibeus jamaicensis) intestinal microbiome and metabolome.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Ecology and evolution of the social microbiome.Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics · 2024Article
- Spatiotemporal-social association predicts immunological similarity in rewilded mice.Science advances · 2023Article
- Social association predicts immunological similarity in rewilded mice.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Microbiome assembly and maintenance across the lifespan of bumble bee workers.Molecular ecology · 2023Article
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Abstract
The 'social microbiome' can fundamentally shape the costs and benefits of group-living, but understanding social transmission of microbes in free-living animals is challenging due to confounding effects of kinship and shared environments (e.g. highly associated individuals often share the same spaces, food and water). Here, we report evidence for convergence towards a social microbiome among introduced common vampire bats,
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