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Parental care contributes to vertical transmission of microbes in a skin-feeding and direct-developing caecilian

BACKGROUND: Our current understanding of vertebrate skin and gut microbiomes, and their vertical transmission, remains incomplete as major lineages and varied forms of parental care remain unexplored. The diverse and elaborate forms of parental care exhibited by amphibians constitute an ideal system...

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Autores principales: Kouete, Marcel T., Bletz, Molly C., LaBumbard, Brandon C., Woodhams, Douglas C., Blackburn, David C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10184399/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37189209
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s42523-023-00243-x