Pinacho-Guendulain Braulio, Montiel-Castro Augusto Jacobo, Ramos-Fernández Gabriel, Pacheco-López Gustavo
Doctorado en Ciencias Biológicas y de la Salud, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), Ciudad de México, Mexico.
Department of Health Sciences, Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM), Lerma, Mexico.
Front Integr Neurosci. 2022 Aug 30;16:876849. doi: 10.3389/fnint.2022.876849. eCollection 2022.
The emergent concept of the implies a view of a highly connected biological world, in which microbial interchange across organisms may be influenced by social and ecological connections occurring at different levels of biological organization. We explore this idea reviewing evidence of whether increasing social complexity in primate societies is associated with both higher diversity and greater similarity in the composition of the gut microbiota. By proposing a series of predictions regarding such relationship, we evaluate the existence of a link between gut microbiota and primate social behavior. Overall, we find that enough empirical evidence already supports these predictions. Nonetheless, we conclude that studies with the necessary, sufficient, explicit, and available evidence are still scarce. Therefore, we reflect on the benefit of founding future analyses on the utility of social complexity as a theoretical framework.
这一新兴概念意味着对一个高度互联的生物世界的一种看法，在这个世界中，跨生物体的微生物交换可能受到生物组织不同层次上发生的社会和生态联系的影响。我们通过回顾灵长类动物社会中社会复杂性增加是否与肠道微生物群组成的更高多样性和更大相似性相关的证据来探讨这一想法。通过提出一系列关于这种关系的预测，我们评估肠道微生物群与灵长类动物社会行为之间联系的存在。总体而言，我们发现已有足够的实证证据支持这些预测。尽管如此，我们得出结论，具备必要、充分、明确且可得证据的研究仍然很少。因此，我们思考将社会复杂性的效用作为理论框架来开展未来分析的益处。
