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Does solar irradiation drive community assembly of vulture plumage microbiotas?

BACKGROUND: Stereotyped sunning behaviour in birds has been hypothesized to inhibit keratin-degrading bacteria but there is little evidence that solar irradiation affects community assembly and abundance of plumage microbiota. The monophyletic New World vultures (Cathartiformes) are renowned for sca...

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Autores principales: Graves, Gary R., Matterson, Kenan O., Milensky, Christopher M., Schmidt, Brian K., O’Mahoney, Michael J. V., Drovetski, Sergei V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7807431/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33499993
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s42523-020-00043-7