Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence

Publications of the Institute

Scientific publications of the MPI for Biological Intelligence - starting in the year 2022.

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Adelman, J.; Echeverry-Galvis, M. A.; Baugh, A.; Casagrande, S.; Canoine, V.; Costa, L.; de Bruijn, R.; Gill, S.; Grieves, T.; Jimeno, B. et al.; Malkoc, K.; Giraldo Deck, L. M.; Lopez-Nava, G.; Martin, M. L.; Mentesana, L.; O’Brien, S.; Oefele, M.; Ouyang, J.; Perfito, N.; Safran, R.; Spinney, L.; Spoelstra, K.; Udino, E.; Vitousek, M.: Obituary Michaela Hau (1964-2025). Integrative and Comparative Biology 66, icag001 (2026)

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Alekseev, A.; Hunniford, V.; Zerche, M.; Jeschke, M.; El May, F.; Vavakou, A.; Siegenthaler, D.; Hüser, M. A.; Kiehn, S. M.; Garrido-Charles, A. et al.; Meyer, A.; Rambousky, A.; Alvanos, T.; Witzke, I.; Rojas-Garcia, K. D.; Draband, M.; Cyganek, L.; Klein, E.; Ruther, P.; Huet, A.; Trenholm, S.; Macé, E.; Kusch, K.; Bruegmann, T.; Wolf, B. J.; Mager, T.; Moser, T.: Efficient and sustained optogenetic control of sensory and cardiac systems. Nature Biomedical Engineering 10 (2), pp. 277 - 292 (2026)

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Algora, H.; Kupan, K.; Belojevic, J.; Pakanen, V.-M.; Tolliver, J. D. M.; Rohr‑Bender, V. A.; Koivula, K.; Küpper, C.: Nest survival and failure in ruffs breeding on grazed coastal meadows. Ecology and Evolution 16 (4), e73166 (2026)

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Balay, S. D.; Nordmann, G. C.; Nimpf, S.; Malkemper, E. P.; Landler, L.; Keays, D. A.: Protocol for whole-brain immunolabeling, clearing, and light-sheet imaging of C-FOS in the pigeon. STAR Protocols 7 (2), 104462 (2026)

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Bates, A. S.; Phelps, J. S.; Kim, M.; Yang, H. H.; Matsliah, A.; Ajabi, Z.; Perlman, E.; Delgado, K. M.; Osman, M. A. M.; Salmon, C. K. et al.; Gager, J.; Silverman, B.; Renauld, S.; Collie, M. F.; Fan, J.; Pacheco, D. A.; Zhao, Y.; Patel, J.; Zhang, W.; Capdevilla, L. S.; Roberts, R. J. V.; Munnelly, E. J.; Griggs, N.; Langley, H.; Moya-Llamas, B.; Maloney, R. T.; Yu, S.-c.; Sterling, A. R.; Sorek, M.; Kruk, K.; Serafetinidis, N.; Dhawan, S.; Stürner, T.; Klemm, F.; Brooks, P.; Lesser, E.; Jones, J. M.; Pierce-Lundgren, S. E.; Lee, S.-Y.; Luo, Y.; Cook, A. P.; McKim, T. H.; Kophs, E. C.; Falt, T.; Morales, A. M. N.; Burke, A.; Hebditch, J.; Willie, K. P.; Willie, R.; Popovych, S.; Kemnitz, N.; Ih, D.; Lee, K.; Lu, R.; Halageri, A.; Bae, J. A.; Jourdan, B.; Schwartzman, G.; Demarest, D. D.; Behnke, E.; Bland, D.; Kristiansen, A.; Skelton, J.; Stocks, T.; Garner, D.; Salman, F.; Daly, K. C.; Hernandez, A.; Kumar, S.; Verbe, A.; Nieves-Sanabria, G. A.; Jones, D.; Huang, Z.; Pinto, S.; David, C.; Pablo-Crespo, O. Y. D.; Ye, E.; Huetteroth, W.; Liu, Z.; Santiago, F. J. F.; Dorkenwald, S.; Collman, F.; Suver, M. P.; Fenk, L. M.; Pankratz, M. J.; Jefferis, G. S. X. E.; Eichler, K.; Seeds, A. M.; Hampel, S.; Agrawal, S.; Zandawala, M.; Macrina, T.; Adjavon, D.-Y.; Funke, J.; Tuthill, J. C.; Azevedo, A.; Seung, H. S.; de Bivort, B. L.; Murthy, M.; Drugowitsch, J.; Wilson, R. I.; Lee, W.-C. A.: Distributed control circuits across a brain-and-cord connectome. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2026)

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Berezin, O.; Piovesan, A.; Graf, R.; Samara, E.; Sigmund, F.; Westmeyer, G. G.: Multiplexed genetic tags for electron and fluorescence microscopy. Nature Protocols 21, pp. 1705 - 1729 (2026)

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Bergel, A.; Schmidt, J. M.; Barrillot, B.; Arthaud, S.; Averty, L.; Blumberg, M. S.; Carachet, C.; Clair, A.; Filchenko, I.; Froidevaux, C. et al.; Herrel, A.; Massot, B.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Schmidt, M. H.; Tanter, M.; Ungurean, G.; Libourel, P.-A.: Sleep-dependent infraslow rhythms are evolutionarily conserved across reptiles and mammals. Nature Neuroscience 29, pp. 543 - 550 (2026)

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Beyer, M.; Tuni, C.: Silk of females performing maternal care elicits reduced courtship responses in male spiders. Animal Behaviour 231, 123379 (2026)

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Blumenstock, S.; Arakelyan, D.; del Grosso, N.; Schneider, S.; Shao, Y.; Gjoni, E.; Klein, R.; Dudanova, I.; Komiyama, T.: Optogenetic restoration of neuron subtype-specific cortical activity ameliorates motor deficits in Huntington’s Disease mice. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2026)

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Bright, A. R.; Kotlyarenko, Y.; Neuhaus, F.; Rodrigues, D.; Feng, C.; Peters, C.; Vitali, I.; Dönmez, E.; Myoga, M.; Dvoretskova, E. et al.; Mayer, C.: NFIB influences progenitor competence in maturation of GABAergic neurons in mice. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2026)

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Bulla, M.; Sankar, R.; Forstmeier, W.: No support for honest signalling of male quality in zebra finch song. Ecoevorxiv (2026)

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Calderon-Garcia, J. S.; Costalunga, G.; Vogels, T. P.; Vallentin, D.: Interplay between syllable duration and pitch during whistle matching in wild nightingales. Current Biology 36 (3), pp. 791 - 798 (2026)

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Carranco, A. S.; Romo, D.; de Lourdes Torres, M.; Wilhelm, K.; Gillingham, M. A. F.; Sommer, S.: Turtle egg microbiome modulates fusariosis fungal infection and hatching success. Research Square (2026)

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Chen, Y.; Kloos, M.; Varga, Z.; Zhang, Y.; Piro, I.; Sato, T. K.; Sakmann, B.; Nelken, I.; Konnerth, A.: Thalamic activation of the visual cortex at the single-synapse level. Science 391 (6792), pp. 1349 - 1354 (2026)

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Collado-Diaz, V.; Christakopoulou, M.-N.; Schineis, P.; Blatter, K.; Laubender, D.; Trzebanski, S.; Thoma, M.; Gadient, Y.; Tatliadim, H.; Gkelis, K. et al.; Friess, M. C.; Purvanov, V.; Samson, G. P. B.; Artinger, M.; Bisoendial, R.; Yepes, M.; de Veer, S. J.; Craik, D.; Behrendt, N.; Silina, K.; Legler, D. F.; Halin, C.: uPA-mediated remodeling of CCL21 gradients regulates lymphatic migration of dendritic cells. Journal of Cell Biology 225 (3), e202412190 (2026)

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Costalunga, G.; Carpena Sanchez, C.; Benichov, J. I.; Cross, C.; Clemens, J.; Vallentin, D.: Attuning to song duels facilitates song-matching in nightingales. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2026)

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da Silva Padilha, M.; Koyuncu, S.; Chabanis, E.; Ryazanov, S.; Leonov, A.; Vilchez, D.; Klein, R.; Giese, A.; Griesinger, C.; Dudanova, I.: Anle138b ameliorates pathological phenotypes in mouse and cellular models of Huntington's disease. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2026)

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Delhey, K.; Kappers, E. F.; Valcu, M.; Both, C.; Kempenaers, B.: Environmental correlates of spatio-temporal patterns of colour variation in a bird of prey: The common buzzard (Buteo buteo). Ibis (2026)

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Deryckere, A.; Choudhary, S.; Lynch, C.; Limperis, L. K. V. P.; Affatato, P.; Woych, J.; Gumnit, E.; Ortega Gurrola, A.; Satija, R.; Mayer, C. et al.; Tosches, M. A.: A conserved logic for the development of cortical layering in tetrapods. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2026)

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Deshpande, T.; Kapupara, K.; Hannocks, M.-J.; Huppert, J.; Samawar, S.-K.; Thulichery, D. R.; Budny, S.; Ghavampour, S.; Song, J.; Meng, L. et al.; Adams, R. H.; Jeong, H.-W.; Wachsmuth, L.; Faber, C.; Soltwisch, J.; Hallmann, R.; Sorokin, L.: Vascular basement membrane laminins modulate functional zonation of cerebral microvessels. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism (2026)

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Drummond, N.; Zhao, A.; Borst, A.: Population morphology implies a common developmental blueprint for Drosophila motion detectors. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2026)

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Feigenbutz, D.; Voelkl, K.; Klein, R.; Dudanova, I.: snRNA-seq of Huntington’s disease mice reveals vulnerability profiles of cortical cell types. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2026)

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Fogg, L. G.; Policarpo, M.; Salzburger, W.: Evolutionary dynamics of the vertebrate Wnt gene repertoire. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2026)

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Fogg, L. G.; Tom, E.; Policarpo, M.; Cho, W.; Gao, F.; Hii, D.; Fawcett, A. E.; Boileau, N.; Bech-Poulsen, A.; Steffensen, K. F. et al.; Ng, C. J.; Bushnell, P. G.; Steffensen, J. F.; Brill, R.; Salzburger, W.; Skowronska-Krawczyk, D.: The visual system of the longest-living vertebrate, the Greenland shark. Nature Communications 17, 39 (2026)

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Funosas, D.; Massol, E.; Bas, Y.; Schmidt, S.; Bennett, D.; Arend, D.; Gebhard, A.; Barbaro, L.; König, S.; Carbonell Font, R. et al.; Sannier, D.; Deroussen, F.; Sueur, J.; Trilar, T.; Forstmeier, W.; Roger, L.; Matheu, E.; Guzik, P.; Barataud, J.; Pelozuelo, L.; Puissant, S.; Mueller, S.; Schuller, B.; Montoya, J. M.; Triantafyllopoulos, A.; Cauchoix, M.: A finely annotated dataset for the automated acoustic identification of European Orthoptera and Cicadidae. Scientific Data (2026)

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Giraldo Deck, L. M.; Tolliver, J. D. M.; Algora, H.; Belojevic, J.; Eberhart-Hertel, L. J.; Kempenaers, B.; Koivula, K.; Kupan, K.; Martin, K.; Pakanen, V.-M. et al.; Rohr‑Bender, V. A.; Rönka, N.; Lank, D. B.; Küpper, C.: Sex differences in development alter the fledgling sex ratio in a lekking bird with strong sexual size dimorphism. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2026)

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Gomez-Guzman, C. M.; Vallentin, D.; Benichov, J. I.: Social familiarity strengthens neural and vocal responses to conspecific calls in zebra finches. PLoS Computational Biology 22 (3), e1014024 (2026)

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Goymann, W.: Homo sapiens - The perhaps smartest and dumbest animal on earth? Ethology 132 (2), pp. 73 - 74 (2026)

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Grätsch, S.; Dorigo, A.; Agarwal, V.; Parker, A. V.; Hernandez Murcia, I.; Stemmer, M.; Adel, A.; Jordan, A.; Baier, H.: Cognitive ethology of nest building in a shell-dwelling cichlid. Current Biology (2026)

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Gwee, C. Y.; Tassoni, L.; Boev, Z.; Tomek, T.; Bochenski, Z. M.; Talamo, S.; Wolf, J. B. W.: Performance of two custom probe kits for in-solution enrichment of ancient avian DNA. Molecular Ecology Resources 26 (1), e70071 (2026)

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Haldar, E.; Arun, D.; von Bayern, A. M. P.: Subadult macaws (Ara glaucogularis) copy better than adults but are less likely to imitate in problem-solving tasks. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2026)

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Harbauer, A. B.: Angelika Harbauer: Publishing, pain and perseverance. Career pathways, part 18. Nature Metabolism 8, pp. 2 - 3 (2026)

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Harrison, A.-L.; Stenzel, C.; Anderson, A.; Howell, J.; Lanctot, R. B.; Aikens, M.; Aldabe, J.; Berigan, L. A.; Bêty, J.; Blomberg, E. et al.; Bosi de Almeida, J.; Boyce, A. J.; Bradley, D. W.; Brown, S.; Carlisle, J.; Cheskey, E.; Christie, K.; Christin, S.; Clay, R.; Dayer, A.; Deppe, J. L.; English, W.; Flemming, S. A.; Gilg, O.; Gilroy, C.; Heath, S.; Hill, J. M.; Hipfner, J. M.; Johnson, J. A.; Johnson, L.; Kempenaers, B.; Knaga, P.; Kwon, E.; Lagassé, B. J.; Lamarre, J.-F.; Latty, C.; Léandri-Breton, D.-J.; Lecomte, N.; Loring, P.; McDufﬁe, L. A.; McGuire, R.; Moorhead, S.; Navedo, J. G.; Newstead, D.; Nol, E.; Olalla-Kerstupp, A.; Olson, B.; Olson, E.; Paquet, J.; Pierce, A. K.; Rausch, J.; Regan, K.; Reiter, M. E.; Roth, A. M.; Russell, M.; Ruthrauff, D.; Saalfeld, S. T.; Scarpignato, A. L.; Schulte, S.; Senner, N. R.; Smith, J. A. M.; Smith, P. A.; Spector, Z.; Srigley Werner, K.; Stantial, M. L.; Taylor, A. R.; Tibbitts, T. L.; Valcu, M.; Warnock, N.; Wehtje, W.; Winn, B.; Wunder, M. B.: The collective application of shorebird tracking data to conservation. Conservation Biology (2026)

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Hees, J. T.; Segura, I.; Schneider, A.; Schifferer, M.; Misgeld, T.; Harbauer, A. B.: ER-associated biogenesis of PINK1 preprotein for neuronal mitophagy. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2026)

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Helms, M.; Harbauer, A. B.: A central role for PINK1 in governing local mitochondrial biogenesis and degradation in neurons. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 83, 80 (2026)

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Jelínek, V.; Mari, L.; Petrželková, A.; Albrechtová, J.; Cepák, J.; Kuhn, S.; Munclinger, P.; Tomášek, O.; Šulc, M.; Albrecht, T.: Conspecific brood parasitism in the barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) and other Hirundinidae. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 80 (4), 50 (2026)

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Jendryka, M. M.; Lewin, U.; Kapanaiah, S. K. T.; Dermutz, H.; Liss, B.; Pekcec, A.; Akam, T.; Grewe, B. F.; Kätzel, D.: Excitatory neurons of the anterior cingulate cortex encode chosen actions and their outcomes rather than cognitive state. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2026)

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Knief, U.; Forstmeier, W.: Are our 95% CIs only worth 45% confidence? bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2026)

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Kornfeld, J.; Wang, Y.; Januszewski, M.; Rother, A.; Schubert, P.; Goldmann, M.; Jain, V.; Denk, W.; Fee, M. S.: An anatomical substrate of credit assignment in reinforcement learning. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2026)

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Krasheninnikova, A.; Smeele, S.; Snijders, M.; Haldar, E.; Carpenter, J.; Zamora, R.; Naguib, M.; Wolf, J. B. W.; Gahr, M.; von Bayern, A. M. P.: Evolution of vocal production learning in parrots. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2026)

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Krentz, M.; Tutunji, R.; Kogias, N.; Murali Mahadevan, H.; Reppmann, Z. C.; Krause, F.; Hermans, E. J.: Physiological noise correction in brainstem imaging: An empirical evaluation of fMRI data-driven and peripheral physiological recording-driven methods. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2026)

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Krouglova, A. N.; Johnson, H. R.; Confavreux, B.; Deistler, M.; Goncalves, P. J.: Multifidelity simulation-based inference for computationally expensive simulators. arXiv (2026)

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Legendre, L.; Rode, J.; Germon, I.; Pavie, M.; Père, S.; Fumey, J.; Policarpo, M.; Espinasa, L.; Casane, D.; Rétaux, S.: Long-term genetic mark and recapture in Astyanax mexicanus cave populations: Demographic inferences and conservation issues. Conservation Genetics 27, 24 (2026)

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Lopez-Nava, G.; Michel, L.; Dell’Omo, G.; Quillfeldt, P.; Bustamante, P.; Casagrande, S.: Pollutant exposure shapes mitochondrial bioenergetics in a wild seabird. Environment and Health 4 (4), pp. 782 - 799 (2026)

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Lopez-Nava, G.; Safari, I.; Küpper, C.; Goymann, W.: Sex-role reversal and the Bateman gradient in coucals - Females benefit from mating with multiple partners. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 293 (2064), 20252860 (2026)

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Malkoc, K.: Within-individual variation in glucocorticoid and metabolic rate plasticity: A mechanism of phenotypic fine-tuning to complex environmental challenges. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 381 (1946), 20250054 (2026)

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Marti Pastor, A.; Lewis, L. S. C.; Müller, S.; Guedes-Dias, P.; Olifiers, L.; Pelkonen, P.; del Rio Martin, A.; Fecher, C.; Skiba, N. P.; Hao, Y. et al.; Gavoci, A.; Trovo, L.; Aktas, M. A.; Murali Mahadevan, H.; Harbauer, A. B.; Bomze, H. M.; Arshavsky, V. Y.; Brill, M. S.; Cartoni, R.; Lichtenthaler, S. F.; Gospe III, S. M.; Misgeld, T.: Neuronal compartmentalization results in “impoverished” axonal mitochondria. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2026)

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Mauker, P.; Zecha, C. B. J.; Dessen-Weissenhorn, L.; Roman-Albasini, L.; Meiring, J. C. M.; Brandmeier, J. I.; Beckmann, D.; Prohaska, J. P.; Reynders, M.; Li, Y. L. et al.; Mrug, K.; von Schwerin, H.; Vepřek, N. A.; Gaisbauer, J. F.; Dehmelt, L.; Nalbant, P.; Zenker, J.; Akhmanova, A.; Kerschensteiner, M.; Harbauer, A. B.; Thorn-Seshold, J.; Thorn-Seshold, O.: Logic-gating the HaloTag system with Conditional-Halo-ligator 'CHalo' reagents. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2026)

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Mentesana, L.; Wang, H.-L.; Hau, M.; Isaksson, C.; Andersson, M. N.: Variation in seed abundance predicts yolk fatty acid composition in a wild population of birds. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2026)

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Montero, B. K.; Gillingham, M. A. F.; Ravinet, M.; Illera, J. C.: Host filtering and biogeography structure island bird gut microbiomes. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2026)

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