Quantifying the impact of storage procedures for faecal bacteriotherapy in the critically endangered New Zealand Parrot, the Kakapo (Strigops habroptilus)

Zoo Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 620-625

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Cultivation; Kakapo; Pyrosequencing

Indexed keywords

AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSITTACIDAE; STRIGOPS HABROPTILUS;

CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CRYOPRESERVATION; CULTIVATION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FECES; KAKAPO; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PARROT; PHYSIOLOGY; PYROSEQUENCING; ZOO ANIMAL;

BACTERIA; CULTIVATION; KAKAPO; PYROSEQUENCING;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENTS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FECES; PARROTS; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 84889661561     PISSN: 07333188     EISSN: 10982361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/zoo.21098     Document Type: Article

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