Comparison of gizzard and intestinal microbiota of wild neotropical birds.

Gut bacterial communities have been shown to be influenced by diet, host phylogeny and anatomy, but most of these studies have been done in captive animals. Here we compare the bacterial communities in the digestive tract of wild birds. We characterized the gizzard and intestinal microbiota among 8...

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Main Authors: M Alexandra García-Amado, Hakdong Shin, Virginia Sanz, Miguel Lentino, L Margarita Martínez, Monica Contreras, Fabian Michelangeli, María Gloria Domínguez-Bello
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5868825?pdf=render