Microbiome structural and functional interactions across host dietary niche space. Chiroptera

We characterized how community structure is shaped by predicted functional properties of community members through the study of gut microbiomes and diets of three insectivorous bat species. We sequenced 16S and CO1 libraries and found that while host diet and microbiome community composition do not significantly relate to each other, host diet and metagenome function do, suggesting that diet directly selects metagenomic functions rather than communities.