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Deathly Drool: Evolutionary and Ecological Basis of Septic Bacteria in Komodo Dragon Mouths

Komodo dragons, the world's largest lizard, dispatch their large ungulate prey by biting and tearing flesh. If a prey escapes, oral bacteria inoculated into the wound reputedly induce a sepsis that augments later prey capture by the same or other lizards. However, the ecological and evolutionar...

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Autores principales: Bull, J. J., Jessop, Tim S., Whiteley, Marvin
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2888571/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20574514
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0011097