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Dietary carotenoid supplementation has long‐term and community‐wide effects on the amphibian skin microbiome (2023)
Journal Article
Risely, A., Byrne, P. G., Hoye, B. J., & Silla, A. J. (in press). Dietary carotenoid supplementation has long‐term and community‐wide effects on the amphibian skin microbiome. Molecular Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17203

The amphibian skin microbiome plays a crucial role in host immunity and pathogen defence, yet we know little about the environmental drivers of skin microbial variation across host individuals. Inter‐individual variation in the availability of micro‐... Read More about Dietary carotenoid supplementation has long‐term and community‐wide effects on the amphibian skin microbiome.

Climate change drives loss of bacterial gut mutualists at the expense of host survival in wild meerkats (2023)
Journal Article
Risely, A., Müller‐Klein, N., Schmid, D. W., Wilhelm, K., Clutton‐Brock, T. H., Manser, M. B., & Sommer, S. (in press). Climate change drives loss of bacterial gut mutualists at the expense of host survival in wild meerkats. Global Change Biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16877

Climate change and climate‐driven increases in infectious disease threaten wildlife populations globally. Gut microbial responses are predicted to either buffer or exacerbate the negative impacts of these twin pressures on host populations. However,... Read More about Climate change drives loss of bacterial gut mutualists at the expense of host survival in wild meerkats.

Co-infections mask pathogen-specific associations with the gut microbiota in wild voles (2023)
Journal Article
Schmid, D. W., & Risely, A. (2023). Co-infections mask pathogen-specific associations with the gut microbiota in wild voles. Journal of Animal Ecology, 92(4), 790-793. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13906

Research Highlight: Brila, I., Lavirinienko, A., Tukalenko, E., Kallio, E. R., Mappes, T. & Watts, P. C. (2022). Idiosyncratic effects of coinfection on the association between systemic pathogens and the gut microbiota of a wild rodent, the bank vole... Read More about Co-infections mask pathogen-specific associations with the gut microbiota in wild voles.

Circadian rhythms of hosts and their gut microbiomes: Implications for animal physiology and ecology (2023)
Journal Article
Schmid, D. W., Capilla-Lasheras, P., Dominoni, D. M., Müller- Klein, N., Sommer, S., & Risely, A. (2023). Circadian rhythms of hosts and their gut microbiomes: Implications for animal physiology and ecology. Functional Ecology, 37(3), 476-487. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14255

1. Daily light–dark cycles shape the circadian physiology and behaviour of nearly all organisms, with variation in circadian phenotypes having cascading effects on individual fitness, species interactions and species co-evolution. 2. Recent eviden... Read More about Circadian rhythms of hosts and their gut microbiomes: Implications for animal physiology and ecology.