Exploring the avian gut microbiota: Current trends and future directions

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue JUL, 2015, Pages

  Waite, David W ^a   Taylor, Michael W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Avian; Bacteria; Bird; Microbiota

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AMPLICON; ANIMAL FOOD; AVIAN CROP; AVIAN STOMACH; BACTEROIDETES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIRD; CATHARTES AURA; CORAGYPS ATRATUS; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; FIRMICUTES; FUSOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE SEQUENCE; INTESTINE FLORA; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIOME; NONHUMAN; OPISTHOCOMUS HOAZIN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; RNA GENE; RUMINANT STOMACH; STREPTOCOCCUS; STRIGOPS HABROPTILUS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GALLUS GALLUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84938897339     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00673     Document Type: Review

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