ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2022
Gut Dysbiosis Has the Potential to Reduce the Sexual Attractiveness of Mouse Female.
Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Gut Microbiota Is Linked to Female Olfactory Preference in Giant Pandas.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Host-Microbiome Interactions as Moderators of Host Quality and Biodiversity-Disease Relationships.Integrative and comparative biology · 2025Review
- Does a microbial-endocrine interplay shape love-associated emotions in humans? A hypothesis.mSystems · 2025Review
- The Role of Livestock Antibiotic Use in Microbiota Dysbiosis and Neuroinflammation.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- The potential of olfaction loss to induce cognitive impairment and anxiety behavior in mice via the microbiota-gut-brain axis.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- The Profound Influence of Gut Microbiome and Extracellular Vesicles on Animal Health and Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Neurobiology of Pathogen Avoidance and Mate Choice: Current and Future Directions.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Review
- Intestinal acetic acid regulates the synthesis of sex pheromones in captive giant pandas.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Increasing evidence has shown that the gut microbiome has significant effects on mate preferences of insects; however, whether gut microbiota composition affects sexual attractiveness and mate preference in mammals remains largely unknown. Here, we showed that antibiotic treatment significantly restructured the gut microbiota composition of both mouse males and females. Males, regardless of antibiotic treatment, exhibited a higher propensity to interact with the control females than the antibiotic-treated females. The data clearly showed that gut microbiota dysbiosis reduced the sexual attractiveness of females to males, implying that commensal gut microbiota influences female attractiveness to males. The reduced sexual attractiveness of the antibiotic-treated females may be beneficial to discriminating males by avoiding disorders of immunity and sociability in offspring that acquire maternal gut microbiota
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