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Natal soil consumption shifts gut microbiome in captive Ōkārito kiwi (Apteryx rowi) - Animal Microbiome Background Captive-rearing programmes for endangered birds, such as those in place for kiwi conservation in Aotearoa-New Zealand, can unintentionally deprive the birds access to a microbially-diverse ...

I’m so glad to share this publication. As part of Steve Rowe’s masters, this work experimentally exposes “natal” soil to captive Ōkārito kiwi in order to understand how chicks acquire their gut microbes. Honored to be a co-author of this work! animalmicrobiome.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards (Gift Article) The agency targeted grants focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as research on misinformation.

@katrinamillerphd.bsky.social & I took a look at over 400 active National Science Foundation grants that got killed in the past few days. Here's our story (gift link) nyti.ms/4jp4aOx

We found that these two louse species are actually one! We used lice fresh from their hosts and lice from museum study skins. What an excellent and creative way to use research collections.

We combined phylogenomics 🧬 with historical morphological descriptions 🔬to study two louse species that parasitize chipmunks 🐿️ .

Genomics and Morphology Resolve Chipmunk Sucking Louse Systematics (Genus Hoplopleura) Sucking lice are obligate parasites of eutherian mammals and are generally considered to be host-specific parasites. Molecular investigations have found that some current louse taxonomy is incorrect a...

Happy 😊 🧪👩🏽‍💻 to share our (@kaycebell.bsky.social, Lance Durden, Julie Allen, Anna Phillips) publication on louse systematics! doi.org/10.1645/24-135

Giraffes’ Gut Microbiome Communities Determined By Species, Not Diet The giraffe’s gut microbiome is made up of a variety of bacteria and fungi, and is largely determined by the giraffe’s species – not by what they eat.

Recent study of ours covered by Forbes.
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#microbiome #diet #giraffe

Pinworm microbiomes are distinct from their chipmunk host gut microbiota Our study investigates the gut microbiomes of the Crater Yellow-pine Chipmunk and its endoparasitic pinworm. By identifying bacterial species that inhabit

Excited that our (@kaycebell.bsky.social and Liz Palma) paper on nested microbiomes is out! Here we compared chipmunk gut microbiomes with the gut microbes of their parasitic pinworms! 🧪🧬🦠🔬 doi.org/10.1093/jmam...

Thank you! Excited to finally join BlueSky to learn about everyone’s science and share our cool research 🙂