Data from: Fur seal microbiota are shaped by the social and physical environment, show mother-offspring similarities and are associated with host genetic quality

• Main Authors: Grosser, Stefanie, Sauer, Jan, Paijmans, Anneke, Caspers, Barbara, Forcada, Jaume, Wolf, Jochen, Hoffman, Joseph
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: skin microbiome; mother–offspring recognition; host control; Inbreeding; pinniped; Antarctic; Bird Island; Antarc*; Antarctic Fur Seal; Arctocephalus gazella
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.209018; https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.cj05t65

Despite an increasing appreciation of the importance of host-microbe interactions in ecological and evolutionary processes, the factors shaping microbial communities in wild populations remain poorly understood. We therefore exploited a natural experiment provided by two adjacent Antarctic fur seal...