Social interaction facilitates the horizontal transmission of the microbiota between different individuals. However, little is known about the level of microbiota transmission in different livestock a
We tested microbial effects on local adaptation in four paired populations of an abundant alpine plant from two community types, dry and moist meadow. We conducted a greenhouse experiment over five mo
This study provides basic reference data for investigations of the gut microbiota community structure of wild birds and deepens our understanding of the dynamics of the gut microflora during raptor de
Next-generation sequencing is one of the most popular and cost-effective ways of characterizing microbiome in multiple samples. However, most of the currently available amplicon sequencing approaches
