TY - JOUR
T1 - Leveraging non-human primates for exploring the social transmission of microbes
AU - Kuthyar, Sahana
AU - Manus, Melissa B.
AU - Amato, Katherine R.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. KRA is supported as a CIFAR fellow in the ?Humans and the Microbiome? program and is grateful to this group for discussion around these general themes.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2019/8
Y1 - 2019/8
N2 - Host social interactions can provide multiple complex pathways for microbial transmission. Here, we suggest non-human primates as models to study the social transmission of commensal or mutualistic microbes due to their high sociality, wide range of group compositions and dominance structures, and diverse group interactions. Microbial sharing from social interactions can positively impact host health by promoting microbial diversity and influencing immunity. Microbes may also drive their own transmission by shaping host behavior, which could lead to fitness benefits for both microbes and hosts. Variation in patterns of social interactions at both the individual and group scale make non-human primates an ideal system to explore the relationship between social behavior, microbial sharing, and their impact on host health and evolution.
AB - Host social interactions can provide multiple complex pathways for microbial transmission. Here, we suggest non-human primates as models to study the social transmission of commensal or mutualistic microbes due to their high sociality, wide range of group compositions and dominance structures, and diverse group interactions. Microbial sharing from social interactions can positively impact host health by promoting microbial diversity and influencing immunity. Microbes may also drive their own transmission by shaping host behavior, which could lead to fitness benefits for both microbes and hosts. Variation in patterns of social interactions at both the individual and group scale make non-human primates an ideal system to explore the relationship between social behavior, microbial sharing, and their impact on host health and evolution.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.mib.2019.09.001
DO - 10.1016/j.mib.2019.09.001
M3 - Review article
C2 - 31585390
AN - SCOPUS:85072757761
SN - 1369-5274
VL - 50
SP - 8
EP - 14
JO - Current Opinion in Microbiology
JF - Current Opinion in Microbiology
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