Barbora Bendová, Barbora Vošlajerová Bímová, Dagmar Čížková, Kristina Daniszová, Ľudovít Ďureje, Zuzana Hiadlovská, Miloš Macholán, Jaroslav Piálek, Lucie Schmiedová, Jakub Kreisinger
The gut microbiota of vertebrates is acquired from the environment and other individuals, including parents and unrelated conspecifics. In the laboratory mouse, a key animal model, inter-individual interactions are severely limited and its gut microbiota is abnormal. Surprisingly, our understanding of how inter-individual transmission impacts house mouse gut microbiota is solely derived from laboratory experiments. We investigated the effects of inter-individual transmission on gut microbiota in two subspecies of house mice (Mus musculus musculus and M...
May 10, 2024: FEMS Microbiology Ecology