Gut microorganisms in city-dwelling humans appear to be showing up in urban wildlife, putting the health of those animals at risk.
Animals moving into the big city could be getting more than they bargained for. Gut microorganisms from humans in cities may be spilling over into urban wildlife, potentially putting the animals’ health at risk.
Fecal samples from humans and animals around the world show that urban critters harbor microbial communities that havethan in rural people and wildlife, researchers report in a preliminary study posted January 6 at bioRxiv.org.
Many of the microbes that show up more often in industrialized human populations are appearing in urban wildlife populations, but they’re completely missing from the rural populations, says Andrew Moeller, an evolutionary biologist at Cornell University. .
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