ERC Consolidator Grant · 2023
The gut microbiome is strongly linked to health and sickness. A current key challenge is to understand how the microbiome helps the host adapt to environmental variation. Yet, most research originates from few laboratory animal models and thus misses large parts of environmental, physiological and life-history variation, while data from wild populations and species is needed. Thus, our overarching aim is to unravel how the microbiome mediates host’s responses to environmental variation, covering molecular to evolutionary scale, using wild birds as a study system. We focus on how gut microbiome helps hosts to cope with temperature variation, given the pervasiveness of temperature as a…
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