BACKGROUND Increasingly, it is recognized that the microbes resident in the
gastrointestinal tract can influence brain physiology and behavior. Research has shown that�…

The central aim of conservation biology is to understand and mitigate the effects of human
activities on biodiversity. To successfully achieve this objective, researchers must take an�…

Multiple factors modulate microbial community assembly in the vertebrate gut, though
studies disagree as to their relative contribution. One cause may be a reliance on captive�…

The trillions of microbes living in the gut—the gut microbiota—play an important role in
human biology and disease. While much has been done to explore its diversity, a full�…

Recent studies increasingly note the effect of captivity or the built environment on the
microbiome of humans and other animals. As symbiotic microbes are essential to many�…

As global biodiversity continues to reduce at an alarming rate, threatened species are
increasingly being brought under intensive management or into captivity. However, current�…

Over the past decade several studies have reported that the gut microbiomes of mammals
with similar dietary niches exhibit similar compositional and functional traits. However, these�…

During the ongoing biodiversity crisis, captive conservation and breeding programs offer a
refuge for species to persist and provide source populations for reintroduction efforts�…

Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) prevalence is rising with no pharmacotherapy
approved. A major hurdle in NASH drug development is the poor translatability of preclinical�…

Plants rely on their microbiome for a number of life-support functions including nutrient
acquisition and protection against (a) biotic stress factors. For crop plants, however, the�…