Bacterial community structure in the hindgut of wild and captive dugongs (Dugong dugon)

Aquatic Mammals

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 402-411

  Eigeland, Karen A ^a   Lanyon, Janet M ^a   Trott, Darren J ^a,b   Ouwerkerk, Diane ^c   Blanshard, Wendy ^d   Milinovich, Gabriel J ^a   Gulino, Lisa Maree ^c   Martinez, Emilio ^a,c   Merson, Samuel ^a,c   Klieve, Athol V ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION   (Australia)

^d NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Bacteroidetes; Captives; DGGE; Dugong; Dugong dugon; Firmicutes; Hindgut; Moreton Bay; Pyrosequencing; Sirenia

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DIET; DNA; ELECTROKINESIS; JUVENILE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; ONTOGENY; RNA; SIRENIAN;

AUSTRALIA; MORETON BAY; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 84869858269     PISSN: 01675427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1578/AM.38.4.2012.402     Document Type: Article

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