ScienceDaily (Oct. 11, 2012) — New
research is revealing surprising connections between animal microbiomes -- the
communities of microbes that live inside animals' bodies -- and animal
behavior, according to a paper by University of Georgia ecologist Vanessa O.
Ezenwa and her colleagues. The article, just published in the Perspectives
section of the journal Science, reviews recent developments in this emerging
research area and offers questions for future investigation.
The paper grew out of a National Science
Foundation-sponsored workshop on new ways to approach the study of animal
behavior. Ezenwa, an associate professor in the UGA Odum School of Ecology and
College of Veterinary Medicine department of infectious diseases, and her
coauthors were interested in the relationship between animal behavior and
beneficial microbes
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