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Skin bacterial diversity is higher on lizards than sympatric frogs in tropical Australia

Animal skin acts as a barrier between the organism and its environment and provides the first line of defense against invading pathogens. Thus, skin surfaces harbor communities of microbes that are interacting with both the host and its environment. Amphibian skin bacteria form distinct communities...

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Autores principales: Weitzman, Chava L., Gibb, Karen, Christian, Keith
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6240339/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30479906
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5960