Ecology and Host Identity Outweigh Evolutionary History in Shaping the Bat Microbiome
This study is the first to provide a comprehensive survey of bacterial symbionts from multiple anatomical sites across a broad taxonomic range of Afrotropical bats, demonstrating significant associations between the bat microbiome and anatomical site, geographic locality, and host identity—but not e...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2019-11-01
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| Series: | mSystems |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00511-19 |