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List of works by Kevin D Kohl

A place for host-microbe symbiosis in the comparative physiologist's toolbox.

scientific article published on November 2016

Activity of intestinal carbohydrases responds to multiple dietary signals in nestling house sparrows

scientific article published on 18 July 2013

An Introductory "How-to" Guide for Incorporating Microbiome Research into Integrative and Comparative Biology.

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Beyond Fermentation: Other Important Services Provided to Endothermic Herbivores by their Gut Microbiota.

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Captivity results in disparate loss of gut microbial diversity in closely related hosts.

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Conservation biology needs a microbial renaissance: a call for the consideration of host-associated microbiota in wildlife management practices

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Developmental adjustments of house sparrow (Passer domesticus) nestlings to diet composition

scientific article (publication date: May 2009)

Dietary shifts influenced by livestock grazing shape the gut microbiota composition and co-occurrence networks in a local rodent species

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Diversity and function of the avian gut microbiota.

scientific article published on 14 January 2012

Do host-associated gut microbiota mediate the effect of an herbicide on disease risk in frogs?

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Do wild carnivores forage for prey or for nutrients? Evidence for nutrient-specific foraging in vertebrate predators.

scientific article published on 12 March 2015

Early-Life Diet Affects Host Microbiota and Later-Life Defenses Against Parasites in Frogs

scientific article published on 28 June 2017

Early-life disruption of amphibian microbiota decreases later-life resistance to parasites.

scientific article published on 20 July 2017

Ecological and evolutionary mechanisms underlying patterns of phylosymbiosis in host-associated microbial communities

scientific article published on 23 March 2020

Ectotherm heat tolerance and the microbiome: current understanding, future directions and potential applications

scientific article published in 2023

Effect of age and diet composition on activity of pancreatic enzymes in birds.

scientific article published on 27 December 2012

Effects of Fruit Toxins on Intestinal and Microbial β-Glucosidase Activities of Seed-Predating and Seed-Dispersing Rodents (Acomys spp.).

scientific article published on 17 February 2016

Effects of anatomy and diet on gastrointestinal pH in rodents.

scientific article published on 4 March 2013

Effects of environmental temperature on the gut microbial communities of tadpoles.

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Environmental temperature alters the digestive performance and gut microbiota of a terrestrial amphibian

scientific article published on 19 October 2018

Experience matters: prior exposure to plant toxins enhances diversity of gut microbes in herbivores.

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Experimental Evolution on a Wild Mammal Species Results in Modifications of Gut Microbial Communities.

scientific article published on 4 May 2016

Fully reversible phenotypic plasticity of digestive physiology in young house sparrows: lack of long-term effect of early diet composition

scientific article published in August 2011

Gut microbes of mammalian herbivores facilitate intake of plant toxins.

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Gut microbial communities of American pikas (Ochotona princeps): Evidence for phylosymbiosis and adaptations to novel diets

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Gut microbial ecology of lizards: insights into diversity in the wild, effects of captivity, variation across gut regions and transmission.

scientific article published on 15 November 2016

Herbivorous rodents (Neotoma spp.) harbour abundant and active foregut microbiota.

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Induced and constitutive responses of digestive enzymes to plant toxins in an herbivorous mammal.

scientific article published in December 2011

Inoculation of tannin-degrading bacteria into novel hosts increases performance on tannin-rich diets.

scientific article published on 5 March 2015

Intestinal Lymphatic Transport: an Overlooked Pathway for Understanding Absorption of Plant Secondary Compounds in Vertebrate Herbivores

scientific article published on 2 March 2017

Larval exposure to polychlorinated biphenyl 126 (PCB-126) causes persistent alteration of the amphibian gut microbiota.

scientific article published on 7 April 2015

Low activities of digestive enzymes in the guts of herbivorous grouse (Aves: Tetraoninae)

scientific article published in 2020

Metagenomic sequencing provides insights into microbial detoxification in the guts of small mammalian herbivores (Neotoma spp.).

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Microbial detoxification in the gut of a specialist avian herbivore, the Greater Sage-Grouse

scientific article published on 29 May 2016

Microbiome stability and structure is governed by host phylogeny over diet and geography in woodrats ( <i>Neotoma</i> spp.)

scientific article published on 19 November 2021

Modulation of digestive enzyme activities in the avian digestive tract in relation to diet composition and quality.

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Monoterpenes as inhibitors of digestive enzymes and counter-adaptations in a specialist avian herbivore.

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Pancreatic and intestinal carbohydrases are matched to dietary starch level in wild passerine birds

scientific article published in March 2011

Parasite microbiome project: Grand challenges

scientific article published on 10 October 2019

Patterns of host gene expression associated with harboring a foregut microbial community

scientific article published on 6 September 2017

Physiological and behavioural effects of fruit toxins on seed-predating versus seed-dispersing congeneric rodents.

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Physiological and microbial adjustments to diet quality permit facultative herbivory in an omnivorous lizard

scientific article published in June 2016

Restructuring of the amphibian gut microbiota through metamorphosis.

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Review: Using physiologically based models to predict population responses to phytochemicals by wild vertebrate herbivores

scientific article published on 25 September 2018

Stabilization and optimization of host-microbe-environment interactions as a potential reason for the behavior of natal philopatry

scientific article published in 2021

Symbiotic microbes and potential pathogens in the intestine of dead southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) calves

scientific article published on 06 April 2019

The Woodrat Gut Microbiota as an Experimental System for Understanding Microbial Metabolism of Dietary Toxins

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The gastrointestinal tract of the white-throated Woodrat (Neotoma albigula) harbors distinct consortia of oxalate-degrading bacteria

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The gut microbiome influences host diet selection behavior

scientific article published in 2022

Two's company, three's a crowd: Exploring how host-parasite-microbiota interactions may influence disease susceptibility and conservation of wildlife

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Unique and shared responses of the gut microbiota to prolonged fasting: a comparative study across five classes of vertebrate hosts.

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Urea hydrolysis by gut bacteria in a hibernating frog: evidence for urea-nitrogen recycling in Amphibia

scientific article published on 01 May 2018

Using the Specialization Framework to Determine Degree of Dietary Specialization in a Herbivorous Woodrat

scientific article published on 2 December 2015

Wild-caught rodents retain a majority of their natural gut microbiota upon entrance into captivity.

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With a Little Help from My Friends: Microbial Partners in Integrative and Comparative Biology-An Introduction to the Symposium

scientific article published on 25 July 2017

microbial communities: a potential mechanism for the initial acquisition of gut microbiota among oviparous birds and lizards

scientific article published on 01 July 2018