Microbial Species-Area Relationships on the Skins of Amphibian Hosts

ABSTRACT Unlike species-area relationships (SARs) that have been widely reported for plants and animals on Earth, there is no clear understanding of the SARs for microorganisms. In this study, 358 specimens of 10 amphibian host species collected from the rural Chengdu region of southwest China were...

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Main Authors: Fan Yang, Zhidong Liu, Jin Zhou, Xuecheng Guo, Youhua Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2023-06-01
Series:Microbiology Spectrum
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.01771-22