The oral and skin microbiomes of captive komodo dragons are significantly shared with their habitat

mSystems

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Hyde, Embriette R ^a,i   Navas Molina, Jose A ^b,j   Song, Se Jin ^a   Kueneman, Jordan G ^a   Ackermann, Gail ^a   Cardona, Cesar ^c   Humphrey, Gregory ^a   Boyer, Don ^d   Weaver, Tom ^e   Mendelson, Joseph R ^f,g   McKenzie, Valerie J ^a   Gilbert, Jack A ^c,h   Knight, Rob ^a,k  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^e DENVER ZOO   (United States)

^f ZOO ATLANTA   (United States)

^g GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Author keywords

Built environment; Human microbiome; Komodo dragon; Microbiome; SourceTracker

Indexed keywords

EID: 85019752954     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23795077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mSystems.00046-16     Document Type: Article

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