An invertebrate stomach's view on vertebrate ecology: Certain invertebrates could be used as "vertebrate samplers" and deliver DNA-based information on many aspects of vertebrate ecology

BioEssays

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1004-1013

  Calvignac Spencer, Sébastien ^a   Leendertz, Fabian H ^a   Gilbert, M Thomas P ^b,c   Schubert, Grit ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Coprophagia; Hematophagia; Host preference; IDNA; Saprophagia; Vertebrate ecology

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BODY SIZE; CALLIPHORIDAE; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; ECOLOGY; FAUNA; FEEDING ECOLOGY; GENE DOSAGE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HOST RANGE; INVERTEBRATE; METAGENOMICS; MITOCHONDRION; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; STOMACH; VERTEBRATE;

INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

BIODIVERSITY; COPROPHAGIA; HEMATOPHAGIA; HOST PREFERENCE; IDNA; SAPROPHAGIA; VERTEBRATE ECOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; DNA; ECOLOGY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INVERTEBRATES; POPULATION DENSITY; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84885379754     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201300060     Document Type: Article

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