Covariation of the Fecal Microbiome with Diet in Nonpasserine Birds
Our study identified food source, rather than host phylogeny, as the main factor modulating the gut microbiome diversity of nonpasserine birds, after minimizing the effects of other complex interfering factors such as weather, season, and geography. Adaptive evolution of microbes to food...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2021-06-01
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| Series: | mSphere |
| Online Access: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSphere.00308-21 |