Into the Wild: Animal Microbiomes in Conservation

Wild animals are teeming with microbes, from their guts to their skin. What can we learn about animals by studying their microbiomes? And how can those insights be used in wildlife conservation?

How microbiomes can help inform conservation: landscape characterisation of gut microbiota helps shed light on additional population structure in a specialist folivore, Animal Microbiome

Microorganisms, Free Full-Text

Frontiers Robustness of Mammalian Gut Microbiota to Humanization in Captivity

Frontiers Revisiting the 4 R's: Improving post-release outcomes for rescued mammalian wildlife by fostering behavioral competence during rehabilitation

PDF) Human encroachment into wildlife gut microbiomes

Gut Check: Evolution Shapes the Microbiomes of Warblers

Simple animal models for microbiome research

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Microbes Matter: Meet the Small but Mighty Microbiomes Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute

Wildlife Health - WOAH - World Organisation for Animal Health

Captivity and Animal Microbiomes: Potential Roles of Microbiota for Influencing Animal Conservation