ArticleFEMS microbes2026
Marginal link between sociality and gut microbiome in disparate mammalian hosts.
Article in FEMS microbes, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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Abstract
Studies in model organisms and wild populations have uncovered manifold links between the gut microbiome and sociality, which, considering the adaptiveness of social behaviour, suggest a potentially generalized coevolution between microbiomes and social behaviour. Here, we leverage phylogenetically and ecologically diverse data from the Earth Microbiome Project to test the generality of the links between sociality and the gut microbiome in wild animals. We find evidence of a small but significant link between sociality and microbiome beta diversity, but not alpha diversity, in mammalian taxa, potentially due to socially mediated microbial transmission. Our work highlights the value of leveraging large-scale multi-study datasets to test fundamental questions about the role of sociality in host-microbiome coevolution.
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