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A novel bioaugmentation technique effectively increases the skin-associated microbial diversity of captive eastern hellbenders

Captive environments are maintained in hygienic ways that lack free-flowing microbes found in animals’ natural environments. As a result, captive animals often have depauperate host-associated microbial communities compared to conspecifics in the wild and may have increased disease susceptibility an...

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Autores principales: Kenison, Erin K, Hernández-Gómez, Obed, Williams, Rod N
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7221235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32431814
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coaa040