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  1. The nutrition of calves from birth until weaning is predominantly from liquid (milk or milk-based) feeds. Liquid feed allowances are often restricted during artificial rearing to accelerate the development of ...

    Authors: Sandeep Kumar, M. Ajmal Khan, Emma Beijer, Jinxin Liu, Katherine K. Lowe, Wayne Young, David A. Mills and Christina D. Moon

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2021 3:27

    Content type: Research Article

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  3. The microbiomes of foundation (habitat-forming) species such as corals and sponges underpin the biodiversity, productivity, and stability of ecosystems. Consumers shape communities of foundation species throug...

    Authors: Carsten G. B. Grupstra, Kristen M. Rabbitt, Lauren I. Howe-Kerr and Adrienne M. S. Correa

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2021 3:25

    Content type: Short report

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  4. Little is known about the complex interactions between the diet, the gut microbiota, and enteropathogens. Here, the impact of two specific diets on the composition of the mouse gut microbiota and on the transc...

    Authors: Nicoletta Prax, Stefanie Wagner, Jakob Schardt, Klaus Neuhaus, Thomas Clavel and Thilo M. Fuchs

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2021 3:24

    Content type: Research Article

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  5. Diet acidification, dietary calcium (Ca) level, and phytase supplementation are known influences on the microbial community in the digestive tract and on phosphorus (P) utilization of broiler chickens. Effects of...

    Authors: Jochen Krieg, Daniel Borda-Molina, Wolfgang Siegert, Vera Sommerfeld, Yung Ping Chi, Hamid Reza Taheri, Dieter Feuerstein, Amélia Camarinha-Silva and Markus Rodehutscord

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2021 3:23

    Content type: Research Article

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  6. Clinical intervention during bacterial infections in farm animals such as pigs commonly includes the use of antimicrobials. With the rise of antimicrobial resistance and the attempts to reduce the use of antib...

    Authors: Adrian Muwonge, Anbu K. Karuppannan and Tanja Opriessnig

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2021 3:22

    Content type: Research Article

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  7. The environment exerts a strong influence on the fish external microbiota, with lower diversity and increased abundances of opportunistic bacterial groups characterizing cultured fish compared to their wild co...

    Authors: Andrea M. Tarnecki, Noah J. Levi, Matthew Resley and Kevan Main

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2021 3:21

    Content type: Research Article

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  8. Gut microbial communities play important roles in nutrient management and can change in response to host diets. The extent of this flexibility and the concomitant resilience is largely unknown in wild animals....

    Authors: Kasun H. Bodawatta, Inga Freiberga, Katerina Puzejova, Katerina Sam, Michael Poulsen and Knud A. Jønsson

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2021 3:20

    Content type: Research Article

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  9. Contagious Ovine Digital Dermatitis (CODD) is an emerging and common infectious foot disease of sheep which causes severe welfare and economic problems for the sheep industry. The aetiology of the disease is n...

    Authors: J. S. Duncan, J. W. Angell, P. Richards, L. Lenzi, G. J. Staton, D. Grove-White, S. Clegg, G. Oikonomou, S. D. Carter and N. J. Evans

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2021 3:19

    Content type: Research Article

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  10. Antimicrobial resistance is one of the most urgent threat to global public health, as it can lead to high morbidity, mortality, and medical costs for humans and livestock animals. In ruminants, the rumen micro...

    Authors: Ming-Yuan Xue, Yun-Yi Xie, Yi-Fan Zhong, Jian-Xin Liu, Le Luo Guan and Hui-Zeng Sun

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2021 3:18

    Content type: Research Article

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  11. Historically the main source of laboratory Xenopus laevis was the environment. The increase in genetically altered animals and evolving governmental constraints around using wild-caught animals for research has l...

    Authors: Maya Z. Piccinni, Joy E. M. Watts, Marie Fourny, Matt Guille and Samuel C. Robson

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2021 3:17

    Content type: Research Article

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  12. Infectious Bovine Keratoconjunctivitis (IBK), commonly known as pinkeye, is one of the most significant diseases of beef cattle. As such, IBK costs the US beef industry at least 150 million annually. However, ...

    Authors: Alison C. Bartenslager, Nirosh D. Althuge, John Dustin Loy, Matthew M. Hille, Matthew L. Spangler and Samodha C. Fernando

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2021 3:16

    Content type: Research Article

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  13. Metritis is an inflammatory uterine disease found in ~ 20% of dairy cows after parturition and associated with uterine microbiota with high abundance of Fusobacterium, Bacteroides, and Porphyromonas. Ceftiofur is...

    Authors: Soo Jin Jeon, Federico Cunha, Rodolfo Daetz, Rodrigo C. Bicalho, Svetlana Lima and Klibs N. Galvão

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2021 3:15

    Content type: Research Article

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  14. The importance of the gut microbiota for health and wellbeing is well established for humans and some land animals. The gut microbiota is supposedly as important for fish, but existing knowledge has many gaps,...

    Authors: Jie Wang, Alexander Jaramillo-Torres, Yanxian Li, Trond M. Kortner, Karina Gajardo, Øyvind Jakobsen Brevik, Jan Vidar Jakobsen and Åshild Krogdahl

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2021 3:14

    Content type: Research Article

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  15. Marsupials are born much earlier than placental mammals, with most crawling from the birth canal to the protective marsupium (pouch) to further their development. However, little is known about the microbiolog...

    Authors: Sesilje Weiss, David Taggart, Ian Smith, Kristofer M. Helgen and Raphael Eisenhofer

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2021 3:13

    Content type: Research Article

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  16. Across taxa, animals with depleted intestinal microbiomes show disrupted behavioral phenotypes. Axenic (i.e., microbe-free) mice, zebrafish, and fruit flies exhibit increased locomotor behavior, or hyperactivi...

    Authors: Chelsea A. Weitekamp, Allison Kvasnicka, Scott P. Keely, Nichole E. Brinkman, Xia Meng Howey, Shaza Gaballah, Drake Phelps, Tara Catron, Todd Zurlinden, Emily Wheaton and Tamara Tal

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2021 3:12

    Content type: Research Article

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  17. Newborn ruminants possess an underdeveloped rumen which is colonized by microorganisms acquired from adult animals and the surrounding environment. This microbial transfer can be limited in dairy systems in wh...

    Authors: Juan Manuel Palma-Hidalgo, Elisabeth Jiménez, Milka Popova, Diego Pablo Morgavi, Antonio Ignacio Martín-García, David Rafael Yáñez-Ruiz and Alejandro Belanche

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2021 3:11

    Content type: Research Article

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  18. Important changes in microbial composition related to sexual maturation have been already reported in the gut of several vertebrates including mammals, amphibians and fish. Such changes in fish are linked to r...

    Authors: Daniela Rosado, Marcos Pérez-Losada, Ana Pereira, Ricardo Severino and Raquel Xavier

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2021 3:10

    Content type: Research Article

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  20. Intestinal digesta is commonly used for studying responses of microbiota to dietary shifts, yet evidence is accumulating that it represents an incomplete view of the intestinal microbiota. The present work aim...

    Authors: Yanxian Li, Leonardo Bruni, Alexander Jaramillo-Torres, Karina Gajardo, Trond M. Kortner and Åshild Krogdahl

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2021 3:8

    Content type: Research Article

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  21. Aquaculture successfully meets global food demands for many fish species. However, aquaculture production of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) is just 2.5% of total market production. For cod farming to be a viable eco...

    Authors: C. Keating, M. Bolton-Warberg, J. Hinchcliffe, R. Davies, S. Whelan, A. H. L. Wan, R. D. Fitzgerald, S. J. Davies, U. Z. Ijaz and C. J. Smith

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2021 3:7

    Content type: Research Article

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  22. Relationships between microbial composition and steatosis are being extensively studied in mammals, and causal relations have been evidenced. In migratory birds the liver can transiently store lipids during pr...

    Authors: Christelle Knudsen, Julien Arroyo, Maxime Even, Laurent Cauquil, Géraldine Pascal, Xavier Fernandez, Franck Lavigne, Stéphane Davail, Sylvie Combes and Karine Ricaud

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2021 3:6

    Content type: Research Article

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  23. Oysters in coastal environments are subject to fluctuating environmental conditions that may impact the ecosystem services they provide. Oyster-associated microbiomes are responsible for some of these services...

    Authors: Rebecca J. Stevick, Anton F. Post and Marta Gómez-Chiarri

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2021 3:5

    Content type: Research Article

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  24. Herbivorous mammals co-opt microbes to derive energy and nutrients from diets that are recalcitrant to host enzymes. Recent research has found that captive management—an important conservation tool for many sp...

    Authors: Raphael Eisenhofer, Kristofer M. Helgen and David Taggart

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2021 3:4

    Content type: Research Article

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  25. Disentangling the dynamics of microbial interactions within communities improves our comprehension of metacommunity assembly of microbiota during host development and under perturbations. To assess the impact ...

    Authors: Bachar Cheaib, Hamza Seghouani, Martin Llewellyn, Katherine Vandal-Lenghan, Pierre-Luc Mercier and Nicolas Derome

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2021 3:3

    Content type: Research Article

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  26. Chronic recurrent diarrhoea and weight loss is a common problem in captive callitrichids. These symptoms are common clinical features of marmoset wasting syndrome (MWS), a chronic enteric inflammation of unkno...

    Authors: Peter Richards-Rios, Paul Wigley, Javier López, Dominic Wormell and Alberto Barbón

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2021 3:1

    Content type: Research Article

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  27. With a growing demand for safe and sustainable alternatives to antimicrobials, functional feed ingredients such as plant essential oils have been evaluated for their potential to improve gut health. Amongst th...

    Authors: H. N. Hall, D. J. Wilkinson and M. Le Bon

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2021 3:2

    Content type: Research Article

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  28. Early development of the gut microbiome is an essential part of neonate health in animals. It is unclear whether the acquisition of gut microbes is different between domesticated animals and their wild counter...

    Authors: Meredith K. Tavenner, Sue M. McDonnell and Amy S. Biddle

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2020 2:43

    Content type: Research Article

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  31. The effect of the production environment and different management practices in rabbit cecal microbiota remains poorly understood. While previous studies have proved the impact of the age or the feed compositio...

    Authors: María Velasco-Galilea, Miriam Guivernau, Miriam Piles, Marc Viñas, Oriol Rafel, Armand Sánchez, Yuliaxis Ramayo-Caldas, Olga González-Rodríguez and Juan P. Sánchez

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2020 2:40

    Content type: Research Article

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  32. Host-specific microbiomes play an important role in individual health and ecology; in marine mammals, epidermal microbiomes may be a protective barrier between the host and its aqueous environment. Understandi...

    Authors: Amy M. Van Cise, Paul R. Wade, Caroline E. C. Goertz, Kathy Burek-Huntington, Kim M. Parsons, Tonya Clauss, Roderick C. Hobbs and Amy Apprill

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2020 2:39

    Content type: Research Article

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  33. Anthelmintic treatment is a risk factor for intestinal disease in the horse, known as colic. However the mechanisms involved in the onset of disease post anthelmintic treatment are unknown. The interaction bet...

    Authors: S. P. Daniels, J. Leng, J. R. Swann and C. J. Proudman

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2020 2:38

    Content type: Research Article

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  34. Insect-associated microorganisms can provide a wide range of benefits to their host, but insect dependency on these microbes varies greatly. The origin and functionality of insect microbiomes is not well under...

    Authors: Sofia I. F. Gomes, Anna M. Kielak, S. Emilia Hannula, Robin Heinen, Renske Jongen, Ivor Keesmaat, Jonathan R. De Long and T. Martijn Bezemer

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2020 2:37

    Content type: Research Article

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  35. The extent to which deterministic rather than stochastic processes guide gut bacteria co-existence and ultimately their assembling into a community remains largely unknown. Co-occurrence networks of bacterial ...

    Authors: Joan Lluís Riera and Laura Baldo

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2020 2:36

    Content type: Research Article

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  36. Microorganisms have intimate functional relationships with invertebrate and vertebrate taxa, with the potential to drastically impact health outcomes. Perturbations that affect microbial communities residing o...

    Authors: Denita M. Weeks, Matthew J. Parris and Shawn P. Brown

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2020 2:35

    Content type: Research Article

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  38. The small intestine, while serving as the main absorption organ, also possesses a unique bacterial environment and holds the critical function of conversion of primary bile acids. Bile acids are, in turn, able...

    Authors: Jianan Liu, Fang Liu, Wentao Cai, Cunling Jia, Ying Bai, Yanghua He, Weiyun Zhu, Robert W. Li and Jiuzhou Song

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2020 2:33

    Content type: Research Article

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  39. Little is known about maturation of calves’ gut microbiome in veal farms, in which animals are confined under intensive-farming conditions and the administration of collective antibiotic treatment in feed is c...

    Authors: Méril Massot, Marisa Haenni, Thu Thuy Nguyen, Jean-Yves Madec, France Mentré and Erick Denamur

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2020 2:32

    Content type: Research Article

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  40. The dam is considered an important source of microbes for the calf; consequently, the development of calf microbiota may vary with farming system due to differences between the contact the calf has with the da...

    Authors: Matthew Barden, Peter Richards-Rios, Erika Ganda, Luca Lenzi, Richard Eccles, Joseph Neary, Joanne Oultram and Georgios Oikonomou

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2020 2:31

    Content type: Research Article

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  41. Gut microbiota plays important roles in host animal metabolism, homeostasis and environmental adaptation. However, the interplay between the gut microbiome and urochordate ascidian, the most closet relative of...

    Authors: Jiankai Wei, Hongwei Gao, Yang Yang, Haiming Liu, Haiyan Yu, Zigui Chen and Bo Dong

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2020 2:30

    Content type: Research Article

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  42. Commonly known as sun-coral, Tubastraea tagusensis is an azooxanthellate scleractinian coral that successfully invaded the Southwestern Atlantic causing significant seascape changes. Today it is reported to over ...

    Authors: Aline Aparecida Zanotti, Gustavo Bueno Gregoracci, Katia Cristina Cruz Capel and Marcelo Visentini Kitahara

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2020 2:29

    Content type: Research Article

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  43. Laying hens with access to outdoor ranges are exposed to additional environmental factors and microorganisms, including potential pathogens. Differences in composition of the cloacal microbial community betwee...

    Authors: Janneke Schreuder, Francisca C. Velkers, Ruth J. Bouwstra, Nancy Beerens, J. Arjan Stegeman, Willem F. de Boer, P. van Hooft, Armin R. W. Elbers, Alex Bossers and Stephanie D. Jurburg

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2020 2:28

    Content type: Research Article

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  44. The skin microbiome of marine fish is thought to come from bacteria in the surrounding water during the larval stages, although it is not clear how different water conditions affect the microbial communities i...

    Authors: Emily T. Dodd, Melissa L. Pierce, Jonathan S. F. Lee and Rachel S. Poretsky

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2020 2:27

    Content type: Research Article

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  45. The use of antibiotics in aquaculture is a common infection treatment and is increasing in some sectors and jurisdictions. While antibiotic treatment can negatively shift gut bacterial communities, recovery an...

    Authors: Thibault P. R. A. Legrand, Sarah R. Catalano, Melissa L. Wos-Oxley, James W. Wynne, Laura S. Weyrich and Andrew P. A. Oxley

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2020 2:26

    Content type: Research Article

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  46. The hamadryas baboon (Papio hamadryas) is a highly social primate that lives in complex multilevel societies exhibiting a wide range of group behaviors akin to humans. In contrast to the widely studied human micr...

    Authors: Xuanji Li, Urvish Trivedi, Asker Daniel Brejnrod, Gisle Vestergaard, Martin Steen Mortensen, Mads Frost Bertelsen and Søren Johannes Sørensen

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2020 2:25

    Content type: Research Article

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  47. Stereotyped sunning behaviour in birds has been hypothesized to inhibit keratin-degrading bacteria but there is little evidence that solar irradiation affects community assembly and abundance of plumage microb...

    Authors: Gary R. Graves, Kenan O. Matterson, Christopher M. Milensky, Brian K. Schmidt, Michael J. V. O’Mahoney and Sergei V. Drovetski

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2020 2:24

    Content type: Research Article

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  48. The development and maturation of rumen microbiota across the lifetime of grazing yaks remain unexplored due to the varied lifestyles and feed types of yaks as well as the challenges of obtaining samples. In a...

    Authors: Wei Guo, Mi Zhou, Tao Ma, Sisi Bi, Weiwei Wang, Ying Zhang, Xiaodan Huang, Le Luo Guan and Ruijun Long

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2020 2:23

    Content type: Research Article

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  49. Ruminant gastrointestinal tract homeostasis deploys interactive microbiome–host metabolic communication and signaling axes to underpin the fitness of the host. After this stable niche is destroyed by environme...

    Authors: Limei Lin, Yue Wang, Lei Xu, Junhua Liu, Weiyun Zhu and Shengyong Mao

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2020 2:22

    Content type: Research Article

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  50. The relevance of the host microbiota to host ecology and evolution is well acknowledged. However, the effect of the microbial environment on host immune function and host microbiota dynamics is understudied in...

    Authors: H. Pieter J. van Veelen, Joana Falcão Salles, Kevin D. Matson, Marco van der Velde and B. Irene Tieleman

    Citation: Animal Microbiome 2020 2:21

    Content type: Research Article

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