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Role of coprophagy in the cecal microbiome development of an herbivorous bird Japanese rock ptarmigan

The transgenerational maintenance of symbiotic microbes that benefit host nutrition and health is evolutionarily advantageous. In some vertebrate lineages, coprophagy is used as a strategy for effectively transmitting microbes across generations. However, this strategy has still not been studied in...

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Autores principales: KOBAYASHI, Atsushi, TSUCHIDA, Sayaka, UEDA, Atsushi, YAMADA, Takuji, MURATA, Koichi, NAKAMURA, Hiroshi, USHIDA, Kazunari
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Veterinary Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6785603/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31406033
http://dx.doi.org/10.1292/jvms.19-0014