Metagenomic analysis reveals a functional signature for biomass degradation by cecal microbiota in the leaf-eating flying squirrel (Petaurista alborufus lena)

BACKGROUND: Animals co-evolve with their gut microbiota; the latter can perform complex metabolic reactions that cannot be done independently by the host. Although the importance of gut microbiota has been well demonstrated, there is a paucity of research regarding its role in foliage-foraging mamma...

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Autores principales: Lu, Hsiao-Pei, Wang, Yu-bin, Huang, Shiao-Wei, Lin, Chung-Yen, Wu, Martin, Hsieh, Chih-hao, Yu, Hon-Tsen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3527328/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22963241
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-13-466

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3527328/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22963241
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-13-466

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