Into the Wild: Animal Microbiomes in Conservation

Wild animals are teeming with microbes, from their guts to their skin. What can we learn about animals by studying their microbiomes? And how can those insights be used in wildlife conservation?

Frontiers Microbiomes: unifying animal and plant systems through the lens of community ecology theory

Microorganisms, Free Full-Text

PDF) The fecal microbiota of wild and captive raptors

Simple animal models for microbiome research

The role of the microbiota in sedentary lifestyle disorders and ageing: lessons from the animal kingdom - O'Toole - 2020 - Journal of Internal Medicine - Wiley Online Library

Reproductive Microbiomes in Wild Animal Species: A New Dimension in Conservation Biology

Wildlife Letters - Wiley Online Library

Into the Wild: Animal Microbiomes in Conservation

Food provisioning results in functional, but not compositional, convergence of the gut microbiomes of two wild Rhinopithecus species: Evidence of functional redundancy in the gut microbiome - ScienceDirect

Into the Wild: Animal Microbiomes in Conservation

How plants recruit their microbiome? New insights into beneficial interactions - ScienceDirect

Microbes Matter: Meet the Small but Mighty Microbiomes Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute

Laboratory mice born to wild mice have natural microbiota and model human immune responses

Land use-induced spillover: a call to action to safeguard environmental, animal, and human health - The Lancet Planetary Health