Human encroachment into wildlife gut microbiomes

Fackelmann et al. study the gut microbial composition of spiny rats across tropical forests in Panama with varying levels of protection and fragmentation in order to disentangle the relative influences of habitat fragmentation and anthropogenic disturbance on wildlife gut microbiomes. They find that...

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Main Authors: Gloria Fackelmann, Mark A. F. Gillingham, Julian Schmid, Alexander Christoph Heni, Kerstin Wilhelm, Nina Schwensow, Simone Sommer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-06-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02315-7