ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2023
The koala gut microbiome is largely unaffected by host translocation but rather influences host diet.
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- Age-dependent patterns of the gut microbiome, antibiotic resistome, and pathogenicity in captive koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus).Communications biology · 2025Article
- Factors that influence the decision to release rehabilitated koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) to fire-affected home sites.Australian veterinary journal · 2025Review
- Endangered Deep-Snow Mountain Caribou Have a Distinct Winter Diet and Gut Microbiome That May Be Altered by Maternal Penning.Molecular ecology · 2025Article
- Range-Wide Assessment of the Tasmanian Devil Gut Microbiome.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Assessing the Effects of Habitat Loss and Deterioration on a Red Squirrel Translocation Site: Insights for Future Conservation Management.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- What Can the Gut Microbiota of Animals Teach Us about the Relationship between Nutrition and Burden of Lifestyle Diseases?Nutrients · 2024Review
- Association of maternal genetics with the gut microbiome and eucalypt diet selection in captive koalas.PeerJ · 2024Article
- Gut microbiota in the short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus Aculeatus) shows stability across gestation.MicrobiologyOpen · 2023Article
- Gut Microbiome Profiling of the Endangered Southern Greater Glider (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
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Abstract
Introduction: Translocation is a valuable and increasingly used strategy for the management of both threatened and overabundant wildlife populations. However, in some instances the translocated animals fail to thrive. Differences in diet between the source and destination areas may contribute to poor translocation outcomes, which could conceivably be exacerbated if the animals' microbiomes are unsuited to the new diet and cannot adapt. Methods: In this study we tracked how the faecal microbiome of a specialist Results: We found no significant overall changes in the faecal microbiomes of koalas post-translocation ( Discussion: These findings suggest that the koala gut microbiome was largely unaffected by dietary change and support previous findings suggesting that the koala gut microbiome influences the tree species chosen for feeding. They further indicate that future research is needed to establish whether the koalas' gut microbiomes are directly influencing their health and condition or whether aspects of the koala gut microbiomes are an indicator of underlying physiological differences or pathologies. Our study provides insights into how animal microbiomes may not always be affected by the extreme upheaval of translocation and highlights that responses may be host species-specific. We also provide recommendations to improve the success of koala translocations in the future.
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