Synchrony and idiosyncrasy in the gut microbiome of wild baboons.

ABSTRACT: Human gut microbial dynamics are highly individualized, making it challenging to link microbiota to health and to design universal microbiome therapies. This individuality is typically attributed to variation in host genetics, diets, environments and medications but it could also emerge from fundamental ecological forces that shape microbiota more generally. Here, we leverage extensive gut microbial time series from wild baboons-hosts who experience little interindividual dietary and environmental heterogeneity-to test whether gut microbial dynamics are synchronized across hosts or largely idiosyncratic. Despite their shared lifestyles, baboon microbiota were only weakly synchronized. The strongest synchrony occurred among baboons living in the same social group, probably because group mem

SUBMITTER: Bjork JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9271586 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature