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ArticleISME communications2025

Metagenomic analyses of gut microbiome composition and function with age in a wild bird; little change, except increased transposase gene abundance.

Chuen Zhang Lee, Sarah F Worsley, Charli S Davies, Ece Silan, Terry Burke, Jan Komdeur, Falk Hildebrand, Hannah L Dugdale, David S Richardson

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Article in ISME communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Chuen Zhang LeeSchool of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, NR47TJ, United Kingdom.
Sarah F WorsleySchool of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, NR47TJ, United Kingdom.
Charli S DaviesSchool of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, NR47TJ, United Kingdom.
Ece SilanQuadram Institute, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, Norfolk, NR47UQ, United Kingdom.
Terry BurkeEcology and Evolutionary Biology, School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S102TN, United Kingdom.
Jan KomdeurGroningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, 9718 BG, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Falk HildebrandQuadram Institute, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, Norfolk, NR47UQ, United Kingdom.
Hannah L DugdaleGroningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, 9718 BG, Groningen, The Netherlands.
David S RichardsonSchool of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, NR47TJ, United Kingdom.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Studies on wild animals, mostly undertaken using 16S metabarcoding, have yielded ambiguous evidence regarding changes in the gut microbiome (GM) with age and senescence. Furthermore, variation in GM function has rarely been studied in such wild populations, despite GM metabolic characteristics potentially being associated with host senescent declines. Here, we used 7 years of repeated sampling of individuals and shotgun metagenomic sequencing to investigate taxonomic and functional changes in the GM of Seychelles warblers (

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Acrocephalus sechellensisagegut microbiomemetagenomicssenescencetransposase

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PMID39968350
PMCPMC11833318

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