Baleen whales host a unique gut microbiome with similarities to both carnivores and herbivores

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Sanders, Jon G ^a   Beichman, Annabel C ^b   Roman, Joe ^a,c   Scott, Jarrod J ^d   Emerson, David ^d   McCarthy, James J ^a   Girguis, Peter R ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^d BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITIN; ESSENTIAL AMINO ACID; POLYSACCHARIDE; RNA 16S;

ANATOMY; BIODIVERSITY; CARNIVORE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HARBOR; HERBIVORE; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POLYSACCHARIDE; PREY AVAILABILITY; TAXONOMY; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; WHALE;

ARTICLE; BALEEN WHALE; CARBON SOURCE; CARNIVORE; FERMENTATION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HERBIVORE; INTESTINE FLORA; METAGENOME; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; TAXONOMY; WHALE; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENE; CARNIVORY; CETACEA; CHEMISTRY; FECES; HERBIVORY; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; CRUSTACEA; MAMMALIA; MYSTICETI;

ANIMALS; CARNIVORY; FECES; FERMENTATION; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; GENES, BACTERIAL; HERBIVORY; METAGENOMICS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; WHALES;

EID: 84942274743     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9285     Document Type: Article

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