ArticleAnimal microbiome2023
Maternal transmission gives way to social transmission during gut microbiota assembly in wild mice.
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- The island biology of the host microbiome.Trends in microbiology · 2026Review
- Applying evolutionary theory to understand host-microbiome evolution.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Review
- Social Microbial Transmission in a Solitary Mammal.Ecology letters · 2025Article
- Mucosal immune responses and intestinal microbiome associations in wild spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta).Communications biology · 2025Article
- Experimental evolution of a mammalian holobiont: bank voles selected for herbivorous capability evolved distinct and robust gut bacterial communities.ISME communications · 2025Article
- Gut microbiome communities demonstrate fine-scale spatial variation in a closed, island bird population.ISME communications · 2025Article
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- Early-life gut microbiota assembly patterns are conserved between laboratory and wild mice.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Social and environmental transmission spread different sets of gut microbes in wild mice.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Article
- Effects of past and present habitat on the gut microbiota of a wild rodent.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
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- Ecology and evolution of the social microbiome.Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe mammalian gut microbiota influences a wide array of phenotypes which are relevant to fitness, yet knowledge about the transmission routes by which gut microbes colonise hosts in natural populations remains limited. Here, we use an intensively studied wild population of wood mice (Apodemus sylvaticus) to examine how vertical (maternal) and horizontal (social) transmission routes influence gut microbiota composition throughout life.
resultsWe identify independent signals of maternal transmission (sharing of taxa between a mother and her offspring) and social transmission (sharing of taxa predicted by the social network), whose relative magnitudes shift as hosts age. In early life, gut microbiota composition is predicted by both maternal and social relationships, but by adulthood the impact of maternal transmission becomes undetectable, leaving only a signal of social transmission. By exploring which taxa drive the maternal transmission signal, we identify a candidate maternally-transmitted bacterial family in wood mice, the Muribaculaceae.
conclusionOverall, our findings point to an ontogenetically shifting transmission landscape in wild mice, with a mother's influence on microbiota composition waning as offspring age, while the relative impact of social contacts grows.
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