Microbial diversity and evidence of novel homoacetogens in the gut of both geriatric and adult giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Tun, Hein Min ^a   Mauroo, Nathalie France ^a,c   Yuen, Chan San ^b   Ho, John Chi Wang ^a   Wong, Mabel Ting ^a   Leung, Frederick Chi Ching ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Ocean Park Hong Kong   (Hong Kong)

^c Hong Kong Brain Foundation   (Hong Kong)

^d NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMATE TETRAHYDROFOLATE LIGASE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ADULT; AILUROPODA; AILUROPODA MELANOLEUCA; AMPLICON; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIRMICUTES; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; MALE; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROFLORA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERENNIPORIA MEDULLA PANIS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PROTEOBACTERIA; PYROSEQUENCING; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; WHITE ROT FUNGUS;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FORMATE-TETRAHYDROFOLATE LIGASE; FUNGI; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; METAGENOME; MICROBIOTA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; URSIDAE;

EID: 84900328997     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079902     Document Type: Article

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