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Age-Related Differences in the Gastrointestinal Microbiota of Chinstrap Penguins (Pygoscelis antarctica).
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Barbosa Andrés, Balagué Vanessa, Valera Francisco, Martínez Ana, Benzal Jesús, Motas Miguel, Diaz Julia I, Mira Alex, Pedrós-Alió Carlos
Abstract excerpt
The gastrointestinal tract microbiota is known to play very important roles in the well being of animals. It is a complex community composed by hundreds of microbial species interacting closely among them and with their host, that is, a microbial ecosystem. The development of high throughput sequencing techniques allows studying the diversity of such communities in a realistic way and considerable work has been...
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