The microbiome of New World vultures

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Roggenbuck, Michael ^a   Bærholm Schnell, Ida ^b,c   Blom, Nikolaj ^d   Bælum, Jacob ^d   Bertelsen, Mads Frost ^c   Pontén, Thomas Sicheritz ^d   Sørensen, Søren Johannes ^a   Gilbert, M Thomas P ^b   Graves, Gary R ^b,e   Hansen, Lars H ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c CENTER FOR ZOO AND WILD ANIMAL HEALTH   (Denmark)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^f AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN;

BACTERIUM; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; NICHE; PATHOGENICITY; RAPTOR; SPECIALIZATION; TOLERANCE; TOXIN;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BOVIDS; CANIDAE; CLOSTRIDIA; DEER; EQUIDAE; FECES MICROFLORA; FUSOBACTERIA; INTESTINE FLORA; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOME; MOUTH FLORA; NONHUMAN; PROCYONIDAE; RABBITS AND HARES; SKIN FLORA; SKUNK; SWINE; VULTURE (BIRD); ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; BIRD; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; FECES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; PHYLOGENY; SKIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CATHARTIDAE; CLOSTRIDIA; FUSOBACTERIA; OTUS; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIRDS; ECOSYSTEM; FECES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOTA; PHYLOGENY; SKIN;

EID: 84923370755     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6498     Document Type: Article

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