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social microbiome — RMBL Knowledge Commons

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social microbiome

Scope: community ecology

Papers: 2 | Mentions: 2

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 46 entities)

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Knowledge graph centered on social microbiome with 46 nodes and 141 connections. Top connected: Marmota flaviventris, mark-recapture (Sciuridae), Bacteria, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Marmota monax.

Definition

The relationship between the microbiome and sociality in animals

Publications (2)

The social microbiome: the relationship between the microbiome and sociality in a wild mammal

Causes and consequences of variation in social network attributes in yellow-bellied marmots (<i>Marmota flaviventris</i>)

2011primary focus

Related Concepts (10)

social phenotype

measurement3 shared papers

community structure

measurement2 shared papers

social network analysis

framework2 shared papers

winter survival

process1 shared paper

brain-gut axis

process1 shared paper

facultative sociality

phenomenon1 shared paper

individual fitness

metric1 shared paper

energy harvest capacity

process1 shared paper

network representation

framework1 shared paper

plasticity

phenomenon1 shared paper

Frequently Associated Species

Marmota flaviventris

Sciuridae2 papers

prairie dogs

Ursus arctos

brown bear

Equus caballus

Cliff swallow

Drosophila melanogaster

Drosophilidae1 paper

Bacteroidetes

Firmicutes

Marmota monax

Sciuridae1 paper