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Seasonal and ontogenetic variation of skin microbial communities and relationships to natural disease dynamics in declining amphibians

Recently, microbiologists have focused on characterizing the probiotic role of skin bacteria for amphibians threatened by the fungal disease chytridiomycosis. However, the specific characteristics of microbial diversity required to maintain health or trigger disease are still not well understood in...

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Autores principales: Longo, Ana V., Savage, Anna E., Hewson, Ian, Zamudio, Kelly R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society Publishing 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4632566/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26587253
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.140377