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Eveliina Hanski

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Researcher in (early life) gut microbiome and epigenetics | Early-career fellow at the Collegium Helveticum🇨🇭| National Geographic Explorer, made of snow 🇫🇮

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Pirta Palola @pirta-palola.bsky.social · Sep 7

What are the fundamental processes that support biodiversity? How do isolation and contact shape life on islands?

To answer these questions, we launched the Island Microbiome project. We’ve just carried out our first field expedition!! 🌊

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Eveliina Hanski @eveliinahanski.bsky.social · Apr 10

We compared gut microbiota across >800 lab and wild house mice. Wild mice have more diverse, aerotolerant, and dynamic microbiotas than their lab counterparts. See our latest paper here: bmcmicrobiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #gutmicrobiome #musmusculus #wildmice

Wild house mice have a more dynamic and aerotolerant gut microbiota than laboratory mice - BMC Microbiology

The mammalian gut microbiota is a complex microbial community with diverse impacts on host biology. House mice (Mus musculus) are the major model organism for research on mammals, but laboratory domes...

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