Environment and diet shape the geography-specific

Geographic and environmental variation in the animal microbiota can be directly linked to the evolution and wild fitness of their hosts but often appears to be disordered. Here, we sought to better understand patterns that underlie wild variation in the microbiota composition of The microbial communities of animals influence their hosts' evolution and wild fitness, but it is hard to predict and explain how the microbiota varies in wild animals. Here, we describe that the microbiota composition of wild