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  1. Social networks strongly predict the gut microbiota of wild mice

    • Data were collected over a one-year period (Nov 2014–Dec 2015) from a wild population of wood mice (Apodemus sylvaticus) in a 2.47 ha mixed woodland plot (Nash’s Copse) at Imperial College’s Silwoo… See more

    Kinship Analysis

    To derive estimates of host genetic relatedness, ear tissue samples were used to genotype all … See more

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    Constructing Social Networks

    All analyses were conducted in R version 3.6.1 (R-Core-Team 2019). To capture patterns of spatiotemporal coincidence among wood mice, social networks were constructe… See more

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    Gut Microbiota Characterisation

    The gut microbiota was successfully characterised from 239 faecal samples belonging to 75 individual wood mice (covering 90% of the monitored mice, mean = 3.2 sampl… See more

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    Statistical Analyses

    To describe compositional microbiota variation, package vegan was used to calculate Jaccard distances and Bray–Curtis dissimilarities among samples (Fig. S6). … See more

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    General Predictors of Gut Microbiota Composition

    We performed permutational analysis of variance (PERMANOVA) in vegan to (1) test the repeatability of gut microbiota composition among individuals sampled multiple tim… See more

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    Associations Between Social Association Strength and Microbiota Similarity

    To test whether dyadic microbiota similarity was predicted by social association strength, we performed Bayesian regression models in package brms . These models ar… See more

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  1. Mice are social creatures by nature. When they are group housed, mice perform an array of behaviors that do not occur in singly housed situations. These additional behaviors are termed social interactions, and each interaction is a functional group.
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