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<br>Research question(s): How specialized are the microbe lineages associated with mammalian guts? When a mammal adopts a diffferent diet, | <br>Research question(s): How specialized are the microbe lineages associated with mammalian guts? When a mammal adopts a diffferent diet, how much does its gut microbiome resemble the microbiomes of its close relatives?<br> | ||
<br> Microbes likely had commensal relationships with the ancestors of mammals, long before they | <br> Microbes likely had commensal relationships with the ancestors of mammals, long before they evolved to give birth to live young or obtained many of the traits that charcterize the class of vertabrates today. <ref name=Ley2008a>Ley, Ruth E et al. “Worlds within worlds: evolution of the vertebrate gut microbiota.” Nature reviews. Microbiology vol. 6,10 (2008): 776-88. doi:10.1038/nrmicro1978 </ref> Today, the microbiota of mammalian guts show similarities between species from similar ancestry, but also between those that have similar diets. <ref name=Ley2008a>Ley, Ruth E et al. “Worlds within worlds: evolution of the vertebrate gut microbiota.” Nature reviews. Microbiology vol. 6,10 (2008): 776-88. doi:10.1038/nrmicro1978 </ref> Without microbes, mammals would have not been able take advantage of | ||
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Introduction
By Joanna van Dyk
Research question(s): How specialized are the microbe lineages associated with mammalian guts? When a mammal adopts a diffferent diet, how much does its gut microbiome resemble the microbiomes of its close relatives?
Microbes likely had commensal relationships with the ancestors of mammals, long before they evolved to give birth to live young or obtained many of the traits that charcterize the class of vertabrates today. [3] Today, the microbiota of mammalian guts show similarities between species from similar ancestry, but also between those that have similar diets. [3] Without microbes, mammals would have not been able take advantage of
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Hindgut Fermentation
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Foregut Fermentation
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Grajal, A., and S. D. Strahl. "A bird with the guts to eat leaves." Natural History 8 (1991): 48.
- ↑ Stevens, C. Edward, and Ian D. Hume. "Contributions of microbes in vertebrate gastrointestinal tract to production and conservation of nutrients." Physiological reviews 78.2 (1998): 393-427.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ley, Ruth E et al. “Worlds within worlds: evolution of the vertebrate gut microbiota.” Nature reviews. Microbiology vol. 6,10 (2008): 776-88. doi:10.1038/nrmicro1978
Authored for BIOL 238 Microbiology, taught by Joan Slonczewski, 2018, Kenyon College.