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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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Autores principales: Leclaire, Sarah, Jacob, Staffan, Greene, Lydia K., Dubay, George R., Drea, Christine M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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