Stress and the microbiome: Linking glucocorticoids to bacterial community dynamics in wild red squirrels

Biology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Stothart, Mason R ^a   Bobbie, Colleen B ^b   Schulte Hostedde, Albrecht I ^b   Boonstra, Rudy ^c   Palme, Rupert ^d   Mykytczuk, Nadia C S ^b   Newman, Amy E M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Illumina sequencing; Microbiome diversity; Sypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RODENT;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); TAMIASCIURUS; TAMIASCIURUS HUDSONICUS;

GLUCOCORTICOID;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; FECES; FEMALE; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; MOUTH; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; SCIURIDAE;

ANIMALS; FECES; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; MICROBIOTA; MOUTH; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; SCIURIDAE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84954356953     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2015.0875     Document Type: Article

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