Deciphering the ecoevolutionary recipe of milk microbiomes

Trends Ecol Evol. 2023 Sep 12:S0169-5347(23)00235-5. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2023.09.004. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn a recent article, Keady et al. analyzed mammalian milk microbiomes across 47 species and found their assembly to be largely determined by stochastic (i.e., random) processes. In many ways, host-associated microbiomes are not random, but random events may have an underappreciated role in microbiome assembly, persistence, and ecology.PMID:37704544 | DOI:10.1016/j.tree.2023.09.004

Source: Trends in Ecology and Evolution - September 13, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Sarah M Hird Source Type: research