Social complexity as a driving force of gut microbiota exchange among conspecific hosts in non-human primates.
| Autor: | Pinacho-Guendulain B; Doctorado en Ciencias Biológicas y de la Salud, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), Ciudad de México, Mexico., Montiel-Castro AJ; Department of Health Sciences, Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM), Lerma, Mexico., Ramos-Fernández G; Institute for Research on Applied Mathematics and Systems (IIMAS), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico.; Center for Complexity Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico., Pacheco-López G; Department of Health Sciences, Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM), Lerma, Mexico. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in integrative neuroscience [Front Integr Neurosci] 2022 Aug 30; Vol. 16, pp. 876849. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Aug 30 (Print Publication: 2022). |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fnint.2022.876849 |
| Abstrakt: | The emergent concept of the social microbiome implies a view of a highly connected biological world, in which microbial interchange across organisms may be influenced by social and ecological connections occurring at different levels of biological organization. We explore this idea reviewing evidence of whether increasing social complexity in primate societies is associated with both higher diversity and greater similarity in the composition of the gut microbiota. By proposing a series of predictions regarding such relationship, we evaluate the existence of a link between gut microbiota and primate social behavior. Overall, we find that enough empirical evidence already supports these predictions. Nonetheless, we conclude that studies with the necessary, sufficient, explicit, and available evidence are still scarce. Therefore, we reflect on the benefit of founding future analyses on the utility of social complexity as a theoretical framework. Competing Interests: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. The handling editor declared a shared affiliation with several of the authors at the time of review. (Copyright © 2022 Pinacho-Guendulain, Montiel-Castro, Ramos-Fernández and Pacheco-López.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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