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Captivity causes taxonomic and functional convergence of gut microbial communities in bats

BACKGROUND: Diet plays a crucial role in sculpting microbial communities. Similar diets appear to drive convergence of gut microbial communities between host species. Captivity usually provides an identical diet and environment to different animal species that normally have similar diets. Whether di...

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Autores principales: Xiao, Yanhong, Xiao, Guohong, Liu, Heng, Zhao, Xin, Sun, Congnan, Tan, Xiao, Sun, Keping, Liu, Sen, Feng, Jiang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6499062/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31106061
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6844