Microbial communities exhibit host species distinguishability and phylosymbiosis along the length of the gastrointestinal tract.

ABSTRACT: Host-associated microbial communities consist of stable and transient members that can assemble through purely stochastic processes associated with the environment or by interactions with the host. Phylosymbiosis predicts that if host-microbiota interactions impact assembly patterns, then one conceivable outcome is concordance between host evolutionary histories (phylogeny) and the ecological similarities in microbial community structures (microbiota dendrogram). This assembly pattern has been demonstrated in several clades of animal hosts in laboratory and natural populations, but in vertebrates, it has only been investigated using samples from faeces or the distal colon. Here, we collected the contents of five gut regions from seven rodent species and inventoried the bacterial communitie

SUBMITTER: Kohl KD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5935533 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature