Cloacal microbial communities of female spotted towhees Pipilo maculatus: Microgeographic variation and individual sources of variability

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 530-538

  Klomp, Jennifer E ^a   Murphy, Michael T ^a   Smith, Sarah Bartos ^a   McKay, Jenny E ^a   Ferrera, Isabella ^a   Reysenbach, Anna Louise ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BODY CONDITION; BODY MASS; BREEDING POPULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROKINESIS; FEATHER; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; GROWTH RESPONSE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PASSERINE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION MODELING; RNA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; URBAN ECOSYSTEM;

AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); OTUS; PIPILO; PIPILO MACULATUS;

EID: 51749116565     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: 1600048X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0908-8857.2008.04333.x     Document Type: Article

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