Nest Material Shapes Eggs Bacterial Environment.

Selective pressures imposed by pathogenic microorganisms to embryos have selected in hosts for a battery of antimicrobial lines of defenses that includes physical and chemical barriers. Due to the antimicrobial properties of volatile compounds of green plants and of chemicals of feather degrading ba...

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Main Authors: Cristina Ruiz-Castellano, Gustavo Tomás, Magdalena Ruiz-Rodríguez, David Martín-Gálvez, Juan José Soler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4752222?pdf=render