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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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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |