A study in Animal Microbiome demonstrates a correlation between anthropogenic pressure and the fecal bacterial microbiome of Kuhl’s pipistrelle bats. Pristine and undisturbed landscapes could promote more resilient gut microbiomes, the study suggests.
We selected the Kuhl’s pipistrelle , a sedentary and synanthropic bat species in NE-Spain, as a study model. This species indistinctively inhabits open forests and anthropogenic landscapes from the Mediterranean basin and extends throughout Europe. From what is known so far, the home range of this species is less than 2 km].
Bats included in this study were individually marked with a circular wing biopsy which was used for other research purposes but also allowed us to avoid resampling. All sampling procedures followed the EUROBATS best practices [
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