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<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> The earliest mammals were carnivorous, and without microbes, they would have not been able take advantage of the diverse array of nutrients offered by the plant kingdom | <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> The earliest mammals were carnivorous, and without microbes, they would have not been able take advantage of the diverse array of nutrients offered by the plant kingdom. This allowed them to fill many of the ecological niches left when the dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago.<ref name=Yong2016>Yong, Ed. I contain multitudes: The microbes within us and a grander view of life. Random House, 2016.</ref> Mammalian gut microbiomes have evolved to aid their hosts in the digestion of plant toxins that would otherwise completely disable them, such as Nordihydroguaiaretic acid. This chemical, would cause desert woodrats (<i>N. lepida</i>) | ||
[[Image:mammalphylogeny.png|thumb|300px|right| Phylogeny and diversification of major mammal groups <ref name=Luo2007>Luo, Zhe-Xi. "Transformation and diversification in early mammal evolution." Nature 450.7172 (2007): 1011-1019.</ref>]] | [[Image:mammalphylogeny.png|thumb|300px|right| Phylogeny and diversification of major mammal groups <ref name=Luo2007>Luo, Zhe-Xi. "Transformation and diversification in early mammal evolution." Nature 450.7172 (2007): 1011-1019.</ref>]] | ||
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Introduction
By Joanna van Dyk
Research question(s): How specialized are the microbe lineages associated with mammalian guts? Amd, 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] The earliest mammals were carnivorous, and without microbes, they would have not been able take advantage of the diverse array of nutrients offered by the plant kingdom. This allowed them to fill many of the ecological niches left when the dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago.[4] Mammalian gut microbiomes have evolved to aid their hosts in the digestion of plant toxins that would otherwise completely disable them, such as Nordihydroguaiaretic acid. This chemical, would cause desert woodrats (N. lepida)
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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
- ↑ Yong, Ed. I contain multitudes: The microbes within us and a grander view of life. Random House, 2016.
- ↑ Luo, Zhe-Xi. "Transformation and diversification in early mammal evolution." Nature 450.7172 (2007): 1011-1019.
Authored for BIOL 238 Microbiology, taught by Joan Slonczewski, 2018, Kenyon College.
