Taming the beasts inside

Elife. 2021 Mar 23:10:e67634. doi: 10.7554/eLife.67634.

Authors

Erica P Ryu¹, Emily R Davenport^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, United States.
² Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, United States.
³ Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, United States.

Abstract

Changes in diet associated with domestication may have shaped the composition of microbes found in the guts of animals.

Keywords: canid; domestication; ecology; evolutionary biology; gut microbiota; human; industrialization; mouse; rat.

© 2021, Ryu and Davenport.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Diet
Domestication
Gastrointestinal Microbiome*
Humans
Industrial Development