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Social odours covary with bacterial community in the anal secretions of wild meerkats
The fermentation hypothesis for animal signalling posits that bacteria dwelling in an animal’s scent glands metabolize the glands’ primary products into odorous compounds used by the host to communicate with conspecifics. There is, however, little evidence of the predicted covariation between an ani...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group UK
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5468246/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28607369 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-03356-x |