Social organization and physical environment shape the microbiome of harvester ants

Abstract All animals harbor microbiomes, which are obtained from the surrounding environment and are impacted by host behavior and life stage. To determine how two non-mutually exclusive drivers - physical environment and social organization - affect an organism’s microbiome, we examined the bacteri...

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Main Authors: Denisse Alejandra Gamboa, Peter J. Flynn, Eva Sofia Horna-Lowell, Noa Pinter-Wollman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2025-03-01
Series:Animal Microbiome
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s42523-025-00390-3
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