TY - JOUR
T1 - Social complexity as a driving force of gut microbiota exchange among conspecific hosts in non-human primates
AU - Pinacho-Guendulain, Braulio
AU - Montiel-Castro, Augusto Jacobo
AU - Ramos-Fernández, Gabriel
AU - Pacheco-López, Gustavo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2022 Pinacho-Guendulain, Montiel-Castro, Ramos-Fernández and Pacheco-López.
PY - 2022/8/30
Y1 - 2022/8/30
N2 - The emergent concept of the social microbiome implies a view of a highly connected biological world, in which microbial interchange across organisms may be influenced by social and ecological connections occurring at different levels of biological organization. We explore this idea reviewing evidence of whether increasing social complexity in primate societies is associated with both higher diversity and greater similarity in the composition of the gut microbiota. By proposing a series of predictions regarding such relationship, we evaluate the existence of a link between gut microbiota and primate social behavior. Overall, we find that enough empirical evidence already supports these predictions. Nonetheless, we conclude that studies with the necessary, sufficient, explicit, and available evidence are still scarce. Therefore, we reflect on the benefit of founding future analyses on the utility of social complexity as a theoretical framework.
AB - The emergent concept of the social microbiome implies a view of a highly connected biological world, in which microbial interchange across organisms may be influenced by social and ecological connections occurring at different levels of biological organization. We explore this idea reviewing evidence of whether increasing social complexity in primate societies is associated with both higher diversity and greater similarity in the composition of the gut microbiota. By proposing a series of predictions regarding such relationship, we evaluate the existence of a link between gut microbiota and primate social behavior. Overall, we find that enough empirical evidence already supports these predictions. Nonetheless, we conclude that studies with the necessary, sufficient, explicit, and available evidence are still scarce. Therefore, we reflect on the benefit of founding future analyses on the utility of social complexity as a theoretical framework.
KW - gut microbial communities
KW - holobiont
KW - microbiota
KW - social behavior
KW - social brain hypothesis
KW - social microbiome
KW - within-group microbial transmission
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85138286366&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3389/fnint.2022.876849
DO - 10.3389/fnint.2022.876849
M3 - Artículo de revisión
C2 - 36110388
AN - SCOPUS:85138286366
SN - 1662-5145
VL - 16
JO - Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
JF - Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
M1 - 876849
ER -