Nest Bacterial Environment Affects Microbiome of Hoopoe Eggshells, but Not That of the Uropygial Secretion.

The study of associations between symbiotic bacterial communities of hosts and those of surrounding environments would help to understand how bacterial assemblages are acquired, and how they are transmitted from one to another location (i.e. symbiotic bacteria acquisition by hosts). Hoopoes (Upupa e...

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Main Authors: Ángela Martínez-García, Manuel Martín-Vivaldi, Sonia M Rodríguez-Ruano, Juan Manuel Peralta-Sánchez, Eva Valdivia, Juan J Soler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4943718?pdf=render