Environment and host species shape the skin microbiome of captive neotropical bats

BACKGROUND: A wide range of microorganisms inhabit animal skin. This microbial community (microbiome) plays an important role in host defense against pathogens and disease. Bats (Chiroptera: Mammalia) are an ecologically and evolutionarily diversified group with a relatively unexplored skin microbio...

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Autores principales: Lemieux-Labonté, Virginie, Tromas, Nicolas, Shapiro, B. Jesse, Lapointe, François-Joseph
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2016
Materias:
Ecology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5036103/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27688962
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2430

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5036103/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27688962
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2430

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