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The dung beetle microbiome complements host metabolism and nutrition.
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Many multicellular organisms rely on communities of microbial organisms to properly benefit from their diets, for instance, by assisting in the breakdown of complex polysaccharides, the synthesis of essential resources, detoxification, or even preventing putrefaction. Dung beetles commonly rely on herbivore dung as their main source of nutrition, a diet rich in recalcitrant, hard-to-digest plant polysaccharides yet poor in essential amino acids, which animals typically cannot synthesize on their own. The work presented here investigates the potential role of the host-associated microbial community in allowing these insects to thrive on their nutrient-poor diet. Specifically, we investigated whether the microbiota of the bull-headed dung beetle,
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