Bacteria divert resources from growth for magellanic penguin chicks

Ecology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 709-714

  Potti, Jaime ^a   Moreno, Juan ^b   Yorio, Pablo ^c   Briones, Víctor ^d   García Borboroglu, Pablo ^c   Villar, Susana ^a   Ballesteros, Cristina ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^c CENTRO NACIONAL PATAGÓNICO   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Faecal flora; Host symbiont interactions; Medication experiment; Pathogens

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BACTERIUM; GROWTH; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION;

AVES; BACILLI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERIUM; GALLIFORMES; GALLUS GALLUS; MICROBIOTA; POSIBACTERIA; SPHENISCIDAE; SPHENISCUS; SPHENISCUS MAGELLANICUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036848893     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2002.00375.x     Document Type: Article

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