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Cloacal swabs and alcohol bird specimens are good proxies for compositional analyses of gut microbial communities of Great tits (Parus major)

BACKGROUND: Comprehensive studies of wild bird microbiomes are often limited by difficulties of sample acquisition. However, widely used non-invasive cloacal swab methods and under-explored museum specimens preserved in alcohol provide promising avenues to increase our understanding of wild bird mic...

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Autores principales: Bodawatta, Kasun H., Puzejova, Katerina, Sam, Katerina, Poulsen, Michael, Jønsson, Knud A.
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/PMC7807456/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33499943
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s42523-020-00026-8