Bacterial communities in meerkat anal scent secretions vary with host sex, age, and group membership

New Synthesis: Animal Communication Mediated by Microbes: Fact or Fantasy?

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Symbiotic bacteria appear to mediate hyena social odors

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

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Mom Knows Best: The Universality of Maternal Microbial Transmission

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Age-related differences in the cloacal microbiota of a wild bird species

(2013) Wouter FD van Dongen et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

Is the Mantel correlogram powerful enough to be useful in ecological analysis? A simulation study

(2012) Daniel Borcard et al.   ECOLOGY

Molecular characterization of the microbial communities in the subcaudal gland secretion of the European badger (Meles meles)

(2012) Yung Wa Sin et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Microbiological and biochemical origins of human axillary odour

(2012) A. Gordon James et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Inbreeding and inbreeding depression of early life traits in a cooperative mammal

(2012) JOHANNA F. NIELSEN et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Human gut microbiome viewed across age and geography

(2012) Tanya Yatsunenko et al.   NATURE

Animal Behavior and the Microbiome

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Evidence for a bacterial mechanism for group-specific social odors among hyenas

(2012) Kevin R. Theis et al.   Scientific Reports

Shifts in human skin and nares microbiota of healthy children and adults

(2012) Julia Oh et al.   Genome Medicine

Age-related changes in skin barrier function - Quantitative evaluation of 150 female subjects

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Animal behaviour meets microbial ecology

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Responses to intruder scents in the cooperatively breeding meerkat: sex and social status differences and temporal variation

(2011) Rafael Mares et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Plumage Bacterial Assemblages in a Breeding Wild Passerine: Relationships with Ecological Factors and Body Condition

(2011) Pauli Saag et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Unravelling the effects of the environment and host genotype on the gut microbiome

(2011) Aymé Spor et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Sexually transmitted bacteria affect female cloacal assemblages in a wild bird

(2010) Joël White et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Individuality in gut microbiota composition is a complex polygenic trait shaped by multiple environmental and host genetic factors

(2010) A. K. Benson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Commensal bacteria play a role in mating preference of Drosophila melanogaster

(2010) G. Sharon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Who infects whom? Social networks and tuberculosis transmission in wild meerkats

(2009) J. A. Drewe   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Consensus multivariate methods in gas chromatography mass spectrometry and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis: MHC-congenic and other strains of mice can be classified according to the profiles of volatiles and microflora in their scent-marks

(2008) Simeone Zomer et al.   ANALYST

Symbiotic association between hoopoes and antibiotic-producing bacteria that live in their uropygial gland

(2008) J. J. Soler et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

A core gut microbiome in obese and lean twins

(2008) Peter J. Turnbaugh et al.   NATURE

The influence of sex, handedness, and washing on the diversity of hand surface bacteria

(2008) N. Fierer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Microbial endocrinology: how stress influences susceptibility to infection

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