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Skin and fur bacterial diversity and community structure on American southwestern bats: effects of habitat, geography and bat traits

Microorganisms that reside on and in mammals, such as bats, have the potential to influence their host’s health and to provide defenses against invading pathogens. However, we have little understanding of the skin and fur bacterial microbiota on bats, or factors that influence the structure of these...

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Autores principales: Winter, Ara S., Hathaway, Jennifer J.M., Kimble, Jason C., Buecher, Debbie C., Valdez, Ernest W., Porras-Alfaro, Andrea, Young, Jesse M., Read, Kaitlyn J.H., Northup, Diana E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5661439/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29093998
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3944