Gut microbiome of the critically endangered New Zealand parrot, the kakapo (Strigops habroptilus)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Waite, David W ^a   Deines, Peter ^a,b   Taylor, Michael W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTEROIDES; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FECES; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTESTINE FLORA; KAKAPO; LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARROT; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THROAT; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; METAGENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEW ZEALAND; PARROTS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 84860004860     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035803     Document Type: Article

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