Culmination of my PhD work finally published! Fish gut microbiomes are more similar to mammalian gut microbiomes than you think. https://t.co/RPHUwXirqn
@jordanmcasey@NinaSchiett
Check out our new preprint on a project that was 6 years in the making. The largest aggregation of animal gut microbiome data to date, from insects to humans, demonstrating how public microbiome data can be used to better understand host-microbe evolutionary dynamics.
I'll be presenting on gut microbiome diversity throughout animal evolution at (virtual) MVIF 50 - with keynote talk by Dr. Julie Huber on 01 June 11am PST // 02 June Tokyo time https://t.co/fGIBKQWOG7. Totally free to join! Hope to see you all there.
My first work on humans! we aren't so bad of a species to study after all. TLDR: C. acnes, the most dominant human skin microbe likely came from the environment rather than being conserved through hominid evolution -- https://t.co/KIEtl9dTRf
Our first Gut Microbiome Tree of Life Project publication! We compiled ~200 gut microbiome datasets to showcase gut microbiome diversity across the tree of life and discuss ecological considerations. Big thanks to the Amato and the Knight lab. https://t.co/IQX8gRf1Qz
New publication by @poopomics:
We show a similarity between coral reef fish and mammalian gut microbiomes, driven by carnivory and herbivory. Gut microbiomes may be shaped by dietary preferences across the vertebrate tree of life.
https://t.co/NV2KVBp5pb
@ZoeRuben1@VegaThurber ing. Especially for 16S. I would focus on doing differential abundance analyses to pick out what taxa are related to what treatments and see if there is a biological pattern that can explain them as a start. 16S is great for this type of exploratory work.
@ZoeRuben1 I would look at all of @VegaThurber’s work. I vaguely remember this program that can bin things as pathogenic or commensal (Bergey’s Manual? It should show up in some of the coral microbiome papers) but as mentioned earlier people are starting to move away from this type of binn
@EcoEvoEvoEco This is just like saying “an individual trait is useless you need to look at the whole population” .. well ya obviously thats what ecology is all about