Cloacal bacterial diversity increases with multiple mates: Evidence of sexual transmission in female common lizards

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  White, Joël ^a,b   Richard, Murielle ^a   Massot, Manuel ^a   Meylan, Sandrine ^a,c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CLOACA; COMMON LIZARD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; INTESTINE FLORA; LIZARD; MALE; MATING; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MONOANDRY; MONOGAMY; NONHUMAN; POLYANDRY; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; ZOOTOCA VIVIPARA; AGING; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ZOOTOCA VIVIPARA;

AGING; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CLOACA; FEMALE; LIZARDS; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 79960649947     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022339     Document Type: Article

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