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Influence of management practice on the microbiota of a critically endangered species: a longitudinal study of kākāpō chick faeces and associated nest litter

BACKGROUND: The critically endangered kākāpō is a flightless, nocturnal parrot endemic to Aotearoa New Zealand. Recent efforts to describe the gastrointestinal microbial community of this threatened herbivore revealed a low-diversity microbiota that is often dominated by Escherichia-Shigella bacteri...

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Autores principales: West, Annie G., Digby, Andrew, Lear, Gavin, Taylor, Michael W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9523977/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36175950
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s42523-022-00204-w