Seasonal restructuring of the ground squirrel gut microbiota over the annual hibernation cycle

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 304, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Carey, Hannah V ^a   Walters, William A ^b   Knight, Rob ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diet; Fasting; Hibernation; Microbes; Torpor

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

AGE; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDETES; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; FEMALE; FIRMICUTES; GENE SEQUENCE; HIBERNATION; HISTORY; INTESTINE FLORA; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFEEDING; SCIURIDAE; SEASON; VERRUCOMICROBIA;

ACETATES; AMMONIA; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTEROIDETES; BIODIVERSITY; BUTYRATES; FATTY ACIDS, VOLATILE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENES, RRNA; HIBERNATION; METAGENOME; PHYLOGENY; SCIURIDAE; SEASONS; VERRUCOMICROBIA;

EID: 84871902153     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00387.2012     Document Type: Article

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