Roey AngelHappy to share that our preprint has now been published in @commsbio .
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-024-06821-2
We also wrote a blog post about it:
https://communities.springernature.com/posts/unravelling-the-mystery-of-millipede-nutrition-understanding-the-role-of-their-gut-microbiota
Disruption of millipede-gut microbiota in E. pulchripes and G. connexa highlights the limited role of litter fermentation and the importance of litter-associated microbes for nutrition - Communications Biology
Disruption of the millipede gut microbiome using inhibitors and labelling it using 13 C stable isotope probing demonstrate that microbial fermentation and methanogenesis are non-essential for the millipede’s nutrition.