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The marula and elephant intoxication myth: assessing the biodiversity of fermenting yeasts associated with marula fruits (Sclerocarya birrea)

The inebriation of wild African elephants from eating the ripened and rotting fruit of the marula tree is a persistent myth in Southern Africa. However, the yeasts responsible for alcoholic fermentation to intoxicate the elephants remain poorly documented. In this study, we considered Botswana, a co...

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Autores principales: Makopa, Tawanda Proceed, Modikwe, Gorata, Vrhovsek, Urska, Lotti, Cesare, Sampaio, José Paulo, Zhou, Nerve
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10581541/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37854251
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/femsmc/xtad018