Gut microbiome shifts with urbanization and potentially facilitates a zoonotic pathogen in a wading bird.

Gut microbiome shifts with urbanization and potentially facilitates a zoonotic pathogen in a wading bird.

Microbial communities in the gastrointestinal tract influence many aspects of host health, including metabolism and susceptibility to pathogen colonization. These relationships and the environmental and individual factors that drive them are relatively unexplored for free-living wildlife. We quantif...

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Main Authors: Maureen H Murray, Emily W Lankau, Anjelika D Kidd, Catharine N Welch, Taylor Ellison, Henry C Adams, Erin K Lipp, Sonia M Hernandez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0220926

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