Conservation biology needs a microbial renaissance: a call for the consideration of host-associated microbiota in wildlife management practices

Probiotics as a tool for disease mitigation in wildlife: insights from food production and medicine

(2018) Valerie J. McKenzie et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

In ovomicrobial communities: a potential mechanism for the initial acquisition of gut microbiota among oviparous birds and lizards

(2018) Brian K. Trevelline et al.   Biology Letters

Effects of short term lead exposure on gut microbiota and hepatic metabolism in adult zebrafish

(2018) Jizhou Xia et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY C-TOXICOLOGY & PHARMACOLOGY

The ecosystem services of animal microbiomes

(2018) E. A. McKenney et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Elevated seawater temperature disrupts the microbiome of an ecologically important bioeroding sponge

(2018) Blake D. Ramsby et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

A novel approach to wildlife transcriptomics provides evidence of disease-mediated differential expression and changes to the microbiome of amphibian populations

(2018) Lewis J. Campbell et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Coral physiology and microbiome dynamics under combined warming and ocean acidification

(2018) Andréa G. Grottoli et al.   PLoS One

Inside the guts of the city: Urban-induced alterations of the gut microbiota in a wild passerine

(2018) Aimeric Teyssier et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Relationships among introduced parasites, host defenses, and gut microbiota of Galapagos birds

(2018) Sarah A. Knutie   Ecosphere

Characterization of shifts of koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) intestinal microbial communities associated with antibiotic treatment

(2018) Katherine E. Dahlhausen et al.   PeerJ

Dietary changes during weaning shape the gut microbiota of red pandas (Ailurus fulgens)

(2018) Candace L Williams et al.   Conservation Physiology

Glucocorticoids modulate gastrointestinal microbiome in a wild bird

(2018) José C. Noguera et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Environmental temperature alters the digestive performance and gut microbiota of a terrestrial amphibian

(2018) Samantha S. Fontaine et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The critical role of dietary foliage in maintaining the gut microbiome and metabolome of folivorous sifakas

(2018) Lydia K. Greene et al.   Scientific Reports

Comparison of intestinal microbes in female and male Chinese concave-eared frogs (Odorrana tormota ) and effect of nematode infection on gut bacterial communities

(2018) Yilin Shu et al.   MicrobiologyOpen

The Effects of Captivity on the Mammalian Gut Microbiome

(2017) Valerie J. McKenzie et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Gut microbial communities of American pikas (Ochotona princeps ): Evidence for phylosymbiosis and adaptations to novel diets

(2017) Kevin D. Kohl et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Rodeo™ Herbicide Negatively Affects Blanchard's Cricket Frogs (Acris blanchardi) Survival and Alters the Skin-Associated Bacterial Community

(2017) Katherine L. Krynak et al.   JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY

Gut microbiomes of free-ranging and captive Namibian cheetahs: Diversity, putative functions and occurrence of potential pathogens

(2017) Wasimuddin et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Land cover and forest connectivity alter the interactions among host, pathogen and skin microbiome

(2017) C. G. Becker et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Early-life disruption of amphibian microbiota decreases later-life resistance to parasites

(2017) Sarah A. Knutie et al.   Nature Communications

Inhibition of Fungal Pathogens across Genotypes and Temperatures by Amphibian Skin Bacteria

(2017) Carly R. Muletz-Wolz et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Evolutionary Biology Needs Wild Microbiomes

(2017) Sarah M. Hird   Frontiers in Microbiology

Community-Level Differences in the Microbiome of Healthy Wild Mallards and Those Infected by Influenza A Viruses

(2017) Holly H. Ganz et al.   mSystems

Climate warming reduces gut microbiota diversity in a vertebrate ectotherm

(2017) Elvire Bestion et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Changes in land use driven by urbanization impact nitrogen cycling and the microbial community composition in soils

(2017) Haitao Wang et al.   Scientific Reports

Direct and Indirect Horizontal Transmission of the Antifungal Probiotic Bacterium Janthinobacterium lividum on Green Frog (Lithobates clamitans) Tadpoles

(2016) Eria A. Rebollar et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Changes of diet and dominant intestinal microbes in farmland frogs

(2016) Chun-Wen Chang et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Skin bacterial diversity of Panamanian frogs is associated with host susceptibility and presence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

(2016) Eria A Rebollar et al.   ISME Journal

A place for host–microbe symbiosis in the comparative physiologist's toolbox

(2016) Kevin D. Kohl et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Dietary Carotenoid Supplementation Enhances the Cutaneous Bacterial Communities of the Critically Endangered Southern Corroboree Frog (Pseudophryne corroboree)

(2016) Casey L. Edwards et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Gut microbial ecology of lizards: insights into diversity in the wild, effects of captivity, variation across gut regions and transmission

(2016) Kevin D. Kohl et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Captivity humanizes the primate microbiome

(2016) Jonathan B. Clayton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Probiotic treatment restores protection against lethal fungal infection lost during amphibian captivity

(2016) Jordan G. Kueneman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Diversity of cutaneous microbiome of Pelophylax perezi populations inhabiting different environments

(2016) Sara Costa et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Do Vertebrate Gut Metagenomes Confer Rapid Ecological Adaptation?

(2016) Antton Alberdi et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Collapse of Insect Gut Symbiosis under Simulated Climate Change

(2016) Yoshitomo Kikuchi et al.   mBio

Honey Bee Gut Microbiome Is Altered by In-Hive Pesticide Exposures

(2016) Madhavi L. Kakumanu et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The Microbiome of Animals: Implications for Conservation Biology

(2016) Simon Bahrndorff et al.   International Journal of Genomics

Environment and host species shape the skin microbiome of captive neotropical bats

(2016) Virginie Lemieux-Labonté et al.   PeerJ

The Oral and Skin Microbiomes of Captive Komodo Dragons Are Significantly Shared with Their Habitat

(2016) Embriette R. Hyde et al.   mSystems

The gut microbiota: a major player in the toxicity of environmental pollutants?

(2016) Sandrine P Claus et al.   npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Effects of captivity and artificial breeding on microbiota in feces of the red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis)

(2016) Yuwei Xie et al.   Scientific Reports

The gut microbiome in health and in disease

(2015) Andrew B. Shreiner et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GASTROENTEROLOGY

Larval exposure to polychlorinated biphenyl 126 (PCB-126) causes persistent alteration of the amphibian gut microbiota

(2015) Kevin D. Kohl et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY

Interactions between multiple helminths and the gut microbiota in wild rodents

(2015) Jakub Kreisinger et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Habitat fragmentation is associated to gut microbiota diversity of an endangered primate: implications for conservation

(2015) Claudia Barelli et al.   Scientific Reports

The effect of captivity on the cutaneous bacterial community of the critically endangered Panamanian golden frog (Atelopus zeteki)

(2014) Matthew H. Becker et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Conducting a Microbiome Study

(2014) Julia K. Goodrich et al.   CELL

Unique and shared responses of the gut microbiota to prolonged fasting: a comparative study across five classes of vertebrate hosts

(2014) Kevin D. Kohl et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Microbiology: Microbiome science needs a healthy dose of scepticism

(2014) William P. Hanage   NATURE

Humpback Whale Populations Share a Core Skin Bacterial Community: Towards a Health Index for Marine Mammals?

(2014) Amy Apprill et al.   PLoS One

Ex situ Diet Influences the Bacterial Community Associated with the Skin of Red-Eyed Tree Frogs (Agalychnis callidryas)

(2014) Rachael E. Antwis et al.   PLoS One

The pathogenBatrachochytrium dendrobatidisdisturbs the frog skin microbiome during a natural epidemic and experimental infection

(2014) Andrea J. Jani et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Captivity results in disparate loss of gut microbial diversity in closely related hosts

(2014) K. D. Kohl et al.   Conservation Physiology

Mitigating amphibian chytridiomycosis with bioaugmentation: characteristics of effective probiotics and strategies for their selection and use

(2013) Molly C. Bletz et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Microbial community dynamics and effect of environmental microbial reservoirs on red-backed salamanders (Plethodon cinereus)

(2013) Andrew H Loudon et al.   ISME Journal

Habitat degradation impacts black howler monkey (Alouatta pigra) gastrointestinal microbiomes

(2013) Katherine R Amato et al.   ISME Journal

Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences

(2013) Margaret McFall-Ngai et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Restructuring of the amphibian gut microbiota through metamorphosis

(2013) Kevin D. Kohl et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Wild-caught rodents retain a majority of their natural gut microbiota upon entrance into captivity

(2013) Kevin D. Kohl et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Cohabiting family members share microbiota with one another and with their dogs

(2013) Se Jin Song et al.   eLife

What is conservation physiology? Perspectives on an increasingly integrated and essential science

(2013) S. J. Cooke et al.   Conservation Physiology

Standardized Frozen Preparation for Transplantation of Fecal Microbiota for Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection

(2012) Matthew J Hamilton et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY

Conservation and the Microbiome

(2012) Kent H. Redford et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Changes in cutaneous microbial abundance with sloughing: possible implications for infection and disease in amphibians

(2012) EA Meyer et al.   DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS

Diet and phylogeny shape the gut microbiota of Antarctic seals: a comparison of wild and captive animals

(2012) Tiffanie M. Nelson et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Gut microbiota disturbance during antibiotic therapy: a multi-omic approach

(2012) Ana Elena Pérez-Cobas et al.   GUT

Dietary shifts affect the gastrointestinal microflora of the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)

(2012) C. L. Williams et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY AND ANIMAL NUTRITION

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

The human microbiome: at the interface of health and disease

(2012) Ilseung Cho et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

The Application of Ecological Theory Toward an Understanding of the Human Microbiome

(2012) E. K. Costello et al.   SCIENCE

The Microbiome and Butyrate Regulate Energy Metabolism and Autophagy in the Mammalian Colon

(2011) Dallas R. Donohoe et al.   Cell Metabolism

Preabsorptive Metabolism of Sodium Arsenate by Anaerobic Microbiota of Mouse Cecum Forms a Variety of Methylated and Thiolated Arsenicals

(2011) Tatyana S. Pinyayev et al.   CHEMICAL RESEARCH IN TOXICOLOGY

Gut of Red-backed Salamanders (Plethodon cinereus) May Serve as a Reservoir for an Antifungal Cutaneous Bacterium

(2011) Patrick J. Wiggins et al.   JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY

The bacterial microbiota in the ceca of Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) differs between wild and captive birds

(2011) Tobias Wienemann et al.   SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Long-term Hg pollution-induced structural shifts of bacterial community in the terrestrial isopod (Porcellio scaber) gut

(2010) Ales Lapanje et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Alteration of the murine gut microbiota during infection with the parasitic helminth Heligmosomoides polygyrus

(2010) Seth T. Walk et al.   INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES

Changes in the Intestinal Microbiota of Wild Atlantic cod Gadus morhua L. Upon Captive Rearing

(2010) Anusha K. S. Dhanasiri et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Skin microbes on frogs prevent morbidity and mortality caused by a lethal skin fungus

(2009) Reid N Harris et al.   ISME Journal