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Gut microbiome community structure correlates with different behavioral phenotypes in the Belyaev Farm-Fox Experiment.
Communications biology - 27 Mar 2026
Puetz Lara C, O Delmont Tom, Mitchell Alex L, Finn Robert D, Zhang Guojie, Shepeleva Darya V, Kharlamova Anastasiya V, Kukekova Anna V, Trut Lyudmila N, Gilbert M Thomas P
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Domestication represents one of the largest biological shifts of life on Earth, and for many animal species, behavioral selection is thought to facilitate early stages of the process. The gut microbiome of animals can respond to environmental changes and have diverse and powerful effects on host behavior. As such, we hypothesize that selection for tame behavior during early domestication, may have indirectly...
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