Within-community variation of interspecific divergence patterns in passerine gut microbiota.

ABSTRACT: Gut microbiota (GM) often exhibit variation between different host species and co-divergence with hosts' phylogeny. Identifying these patterns is a key for understanding the mechanisms that shaped symbiosis between GM and its hosts. Therefore, both GM-host species specificity and GM-host co-divergence have been investigated by numerous studies. However, most of them neglected a possibility that different groups of bacteria within GM can vary in the tightness of their association with the host. Consequently, unlike most of these studies, we aimed to directly address how the strength of GM-host species specificity and GM-host co-divergence vary across different GM clades. We decomposed GM communities of 52 passerine species (394 individuals), characterized by 16S rRNA amplicon sequence varia

SUBMITTER: Kubovciak J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9251858 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature