Characterizing living ocular bacterial communities and the effects of antibiotic perturbation in house finches
Abstract DNA‐based methods to measure the abundance and relative abundance of bacterial taxa can be skewed by the presence of dead or transient bacteria. Consequently, the active, functional members of the community may be a small subset of the detected bacterial community. This mismatch can make in...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley
2024-02-01
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| Series: | MicrobiologyOpen |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1002/mbo3.1398 |