The alligator gut microbiome and implications for archosaur symbioses

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Keenan, Sarah W ^a   Engel, Annette Summers ^a   Elsey, Ruth M ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; CROCODILIAN; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; UNITED STATES; VERTEBRATE;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, BACTERIAL; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; LOUISIANA; MICROBIOTA; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84885357221     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02877     Document Type: Article

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