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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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| 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/PMC7807456/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33499943 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s42523-020-00026-8 |