Epizootic Rabbit Enteropathy (ERE) is a severe disease of unknown aetiology that mainly affects post-weaning animals. Its incidence can be prevented by antibiotic treatment suggesting that bacterial e
Wolbachia pipientis is an intracellular alphaproteobacterium that infects 40-60% of insect species and is well known for host reproductive manipulations. Although Wolbachia are primarily maternally tr
To test whether host animals regulate genetically their microbiota to enhance fitness, we transplanted microbiota between two genetically distinct genotypes of obligate parthenogenetic Daphnia cf. pul
