An experimental approach towards untangling the role of nature versus nurture in shaping the microbiome of social insects
T. M. Cohen, L. Bodner, S. Turjeman, E. Sharon, A. Cohen, S. Bouchebti, E. Tikhonov, O. Koren, E. Levin
The paper investigates how host identity and environment shape microbiomes in social insects, finding environment drives adult microbiomes while host species differences affect larvae.
bioRxiv · Sep 4, 2023 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology