Co-Evolution of Microbes and the Mammalian Gut
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, whow 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 evolve to give birth to live young or obtained many of the traits that charcterize the class of vertabrates today.
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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.
- ↑ 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.
