The gut microbiome of the Sunda pangolin (Manis javanica) reveals its adaptation to specialized myrmecophagy

BACKGROUND: The gut microbiomes of mammals are closely related to the diets of their hosts. The Sunda pangolin (Manis javanica) is a specialized myrmecophage, but its gut microbiome has rarely been studied. METHODS: Using high-throughput Illumina barcoded 16S rRNA amplicons of nine fecal samples fro...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Fuhua, Xu, Na, Wang, Wenhua, Yu, Yishuang, Wu, Shibao
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2021
Materias:
Microbiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8179220/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34141474
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11490

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8179220/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34141474
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11490

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