Parental care contributes to vertical transmission of microbes in a skin-feeding and direct-developing caecilian
Abstract Background Our current understanding of vertebrate skin and gut microbiomes, and their vertical transmission, remains incomplete as major lineages and varied forms of parental care remain unexplored. The diverse and elaborate forms of parental care exhibited by amphibians constitute an idea...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2023-05-01
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| Series: | Animal Microbiome |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s42523-023-00243-x |