ReviewNature microbiology2024
Estimates of microbiome heritability across hosts.
Review in Nature microbiology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
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16 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Host genetic variation and gut microbiome in pediatric diseases.Chinese medical journal · 2026Review
- Advancing climate-resilient livestock systems: Next-generation emission mitigation strategies and integrated technological innovations.Veterinary and animal science · 2026Review
- Genetics-mediated regulation of intestinal gene expression on microbiome contributes to human disease heritability.Molecular systems biology · 2026Article
- Host Genetics and the Skin Microbiome Independently Predict Parasite Resistance.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Breeding of microbiomes conferring salt tolerance to plants.Microbiome · 2025Article
- Quantitative genetics of microbiome-mediated traits.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2025Article
- One Function, Many Faces: Functional Convergence in the Gut Microbiomes of European Marine and Freshwater Fish Unveiled by Bayesian Network Meta-Analysis.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Applying evolutionary theory to understand host-microbiome evolution.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Review
- Microbiome evolution plays a secondary role in host rapid adaptation.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Mendelian randomization analysis revealed a gut microbiota-eye axis in acute anterior uveitis.Eye (London, England) · 2025Article
- A test for microbiome-mediated rescue via host phenotypic plasticity inProceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
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Abstract
Microbiomes contribute to variation in many plant and animal traits, suggesting that microbiome-mediated traits could evolve through selection on the host. However, for such evolution to occur, microbiomes must exhibit sufficient heritability to contribute to host adaptation. Previous work has attempted to estimate the heritability of a variety of microbiome attributes. Here we show that most published estimates are limited to vertebrate and plant hosts, but significant heritability of microbiome attributes has been frequently reported. This indicates that microbiomes could evolve in response to host-level selection, but studies across a wider range of hosts are necessary before general conclusions can be made. We suggest future studies focus on standardizing heritability measurements for the purpose of meta-analyses and investigate the role of the environment in contributing to heritable microbiome variation. This could have important implications for the use of microbiomes in conservation, agriculture and medicine.
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