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Dissecting the factors shaping fish skin microbiomes in a heterogeneous inland water system.
Microbiome - 31 Jan 2020
Krotman Yaron, Yergaliyev Timur M, Alexander Shani Rivka, Avrahami Yosef, Szitenberg Amir
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BACKGROUND: Fish skin microbiomes are rarely studied in inland water systems, in spite of their importance for fish health and ecology. This is mainly because fish species distribution often covaries with other biotic and abiotic factors, complicating the study design. We tackled this issue in the northern part of the Jordan River system, in which a few fish species geographically overlap, across steep gradients...
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