Who: Youngblut from Max Plank (Ley Lab, yes the famous Ley from the 2008 Science paper) and Reischer from Vienna (Farnleitner Lab).
Where and When： Nature Communication, May 2019
Take home message:
- Evolutionary history and diet modulates different aspects of diversity.
- Mammalia have a stronger signal of cophylogeny.
- environmental filtering and microbe-microbe interactions differ among host clades.
Novelty
- Wide evolutionary scale: mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish
Umm moments
- 16s based