Comparative gut microbiota of 59 Neotropical bird species

The gut microbiota of vertebrates are essential to host health. Most non-model systems, however, lack even a basic description of natural gut microbiota biodiversity. Here, we sampled 116 intestines from 59 Neotropical bird species and used the V6 region of the 16S rRNA molecule as a microbial finge...

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Main Authors: Sarah M Hird, Cesar eSanchez, Bryan C Carstens, Robb T Brumfield
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2015.01403/full

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