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Comparative Gut Microbiota of 59 Neotropical Bird Species

The gut microbiota of vertebrates are essential to host health. Most non-model vertebrates, however, lack even a basic description of natural gut microbiota biodiversity. Here, we sampled 116 intestines from 59 Neotropical bird species and used the V6 region of the 16S rRNA molecule as a microbial f...

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Autores principales: Hird, Sarah M., Sánchez, César, Carstens, Bryan C., Brumfield, Robb T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4685052/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26733954
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2015.01403