Methanogenic patterns in the gut microbiome are associated with survival in a population of feral horses
Gut microbiomes are widely hypothesised to influence host fitness and have been experimentally shown to affect host health and phenotypes under laboratory conditions. However, the extent to which they do so in free-living animal populations and the proximate mechanisms involved remain open questions...
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Nature Research
2024
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