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Antibiotic-altered gut microbiota explain plasticity in host memory and disrupt the covariation of pace-of-life traits in an aquatic snail.
Antibiotics prevent snails from forming new memories by disrupting their gut microbiome - the community of beneficial bacteria found in their guts.
This relationship between the bacteria in the gut and brain function is called the microbiome-gut-brain axis.
Antibiotics are not removed effectively by waste treatment, and so enter the freshwater environment.
The antibiotic concentrations snails were exposed to in our experiment were at similar levels detected in freshwater in the UK , Europe and globally.
If freshwater pollution prevents snails from having a healthy microbiome, they won't be able to use their brains to adjust their behaviour when they encounter new information.
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