Ecology and Host Identity Outweigh Evolutionary History in Shaping the Bat Microbiome
ABSTRACT Recent studies of mammalian microbiomes have identified strong phylogenetic effects on bacterial community composition. Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) are among the most speciose mammals on the planet and the only mammal capable of true flight. We examined 1,236 16S rRNA amplicon libraries of...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2019-12-01
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| Series: | mSystems |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msystems.00511-19 |