Vedrana Šlipogor (@vedranaslipogor.bsky.social)

📢 Our new article, co-first authored by Dr. Huimin Ye and myself, entitled “Associations between gut microbiota and personality traits: insights from a captive common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) colony” has just come out in Microbiology Spectrum. 🥳 journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... A thread.

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Associations between gut microbiota and personality traits: insights from a captive common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) colony | Microbiology Spectrum This study provides valuable insights into the intricate relationship between gut microbiota and host personality traits, using captive common marmosets as a model. By controlling for diet and housing conditions, it probes key host factors such as personality, age, sex, and social group membership, offering a robust framework for understanding microbiome-host interactions. The discovery of specific microbial taxa associated with personality traits, particularly the enrichment of sulfite-reducing genera in more avoidant individuals, underscores the potential of the gut microbiome to reflect or be associated with personality differences. These findings advance our understanding of microbiome-host dynamics and pave the way for future research on the mechanistic links between behavior and gut microbiota in other animal models and across broader ecological contexts. https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/spectrum.00443-25