Lab mice have been the most common tool to study how the microbiome affects host physiology in health and disease, but do they really represent what’s going on in the real world? A new study surveying the microbiome of a large population of wild-caught mice suggests that this might not be the case. Check out the paper at http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(17)31065-6 | All Things Microbial