Thomas C G Bosch, Mark Wigley, Beatriz Colomina, Brendan Bohannan, Forrest Meggers, Katherine R Amato, Meghan B Azad, Martin J Blaser, Kate Brown, Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello, Stanislav Dusko Ehrlich, Eran Elinav, B Brett Finlay, Kate Geddie, Naama Geva-Zatorsky, Tamara Giles-Vernick, Philippe Gros, Karen Guillemin, Louis-Patrick Haraoui, Elizabeth Johnson, Frédéric Keck, Jamie Lorimer, Margaret J McFall-Ngai, Mark Nichter, Sven Pettersson, Hendrik Poinar, Tobias Rees, Carolina Tropini, Eduardo A Undurraga, Liping Zhao, Melissa K Melby
There is increasing evidence that interactions between microbes and their hosts not only play a role in determining health and disease but also in emotions, thought, and behavior. Built environments greatly influence microbiome exposures because of their built-in highly specific microbiomes coproduced with myriad metaorganisms including humans, pets, plants, rodents, and insects. Seemingly static built structures host complex ecologies of microorganisms that are only starting to be mapped. These microbial ecologies of built environments are directly and interdependently affected by social, spatial, and technological norms...
May 14, 2024: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America