Gut microbes help their hibernator hosts throughout the year, with or without food!
Urea nitrogen recycling via gut symbionts increases in hibernators over the winter fast biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Urea nitrogen recycling via gut symbionts increases in hibernators over the winter fast biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
www.biorxiv.org Urea nitrogen recycling via gut symbionts increases in hibernators over the winter fast Hibernation is a mammalian strategy that uses metabolic plasticity to reduce energy demands and enable long-term fasting. Fasting mitigates winter food scarcity but eliminates dietary nitrogen,... 
