Microbial symbiosis and coevolution of an entire clade of ancient vertebrates: the gut microbiota of sea turtles and its relationship to their phylogenetic history

Abstract Background The microbiota plays a critical role in host homeostasis and has been shown to be a major driving force in host evolution. However, our understanding of these important relationships is hampered by a lack of data for many species, and by significant gaps in sampling of the evolut...

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Main Authors: Titus Franciscus Scheelings, Robert J. Moore, Thi Thu Hao Van, Marcel Klaassen, Richard D. Reina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-05-01
Series:Animal Microbiome
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s42523-020-00034-8