The Hoopoe's Uropygial Gland Hosts a Bacterial Community Influenced by the Living Conditions of the Bird.

The Hoopoe's Uropygial Gland Hosts a Bacterial Community Influenced by the Living Conditions of the Bird.

Molecular methods have revealed that symbiotic systems involving bacteria are mostly based on whole bacterial communities. Bacterial diversity in hoopoe uropygial gland secretion is known to be mainly composed of certain strains of enterococci, but this conclusion is based solely on culture-dependen...

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Main Authors: Sonia M Rodríguez-Ruano, Manuel Martín-Vivaldi, Antonio M Martín-Platero, J Pablo López-López, Juan M Peralta-Sánchez, Magdalena Ruiz-Rodríguez, Juan J Soler, Eva Valdivia, Manuel Martínez-Bueno
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4596831?pdf=render

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