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?

Naturally engineered plant microbiomes in resource-limited ecosystems: Trends in Microbiology

The Rattlesnake Conservancy

The Wildlife Gut Microbiome and Its Implication for Conservation Biology

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

Even Monkeys Should Eat Their Vegetables! Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute

Effect of fecal preservation method on captive southern white rhinoceros gut microbiome - Burnham - 2023 - Wildlife Society Bulletin - Wiley Online Library

Looking like the locals - gut microbiome changes post-release in an endangered species, Animal Microbiome

What can we learn about microbiomes by studying wild mice? - Futurum

Animals, Free Full-Text

Evaluation of the Function of Wild Animal Gut Microbiomes Using Next-Generation Sequencing and Bioinformatics and its Relevance to Animal Conservation - Ran Yao, Lianglaing Xu, Guoqing Lu, Lifeng Zhu, 2019

Land use-induced spillover: a call to action to safeguard environmental, animal, and human health - The Lancet Planetary Health