Wildlife-microbiome interactions and disease: exploring opportunities for disease mitigation across ecological scales.
Published in Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models, 2018
Recommended citation: Williams, et al. (2024). "Wildlife-microbiome interactions and disease: exploring opportunities for disease mitigation across ecological scales.." Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models. 2018 Jun 1;28:105-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ddmod.2019.08.012
Highlights: • Wildlife microbiomes are underexplored and may contain valuable information for animal and human health. • Captive wildlife are susceptible to various diseases with explicit or purported links to the microbiome. • Gastrointestinal disorders, metabolic dysregulation, reproduction, and disease susceptibility in captive wildlife are reviewed. • Captive wildlife viewed as model systems provide an opportunity to observe diverse functional roles of microbiota in both disease and health states. • Host–microbe interactions present in wildlife populations can potentially lead to new biotherapeutic treatments.
Recommended citation: Williams CL, Caraballo-Rodríguez AM, Allaband C, Zarrinpar A, Knight R, Gauglitz JM. Wildlife-microbiome interactions and disease: exploring opportunities for disease mitigation across ecological scales. Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models. 2018 Jun 1;28:105-15.