The microbiome buffers tadpole hosts from heat stress: a hologenomic approach to understand host-microbe interactions under warming.

ABSTRACT: Phenotypic plasticity is an important strategy that animals employ to respond and adjust to changes in their environment. Plasticity may occur via changes in host gene expression or through functional changes in their microbiomes, which contribute substantially to host physiology. Specifically, the presence and function of host-associated microbes can impact how animals respond to heat stress. We previously demonstrated that 'depleted' tadpoles, with artificially disrupted microbiomes, are less tolerant to heat than 'colonized' tadpoles, with more natural microbiomes. However, the mechanisms behind these effects are unclear. Here, we compared gene expression profiles of the tadpole gut transcriptome, and tadpole gut microbial metagenome, between colonized and depleted tadpoles under cool o

SUBMITTER: Fontaine SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10086385 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature