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Taxonomy, not locality, influences the cloacal microbiota of two nearctic colubrids: a preliminary analysis.
Molecular biology reports - 1 Sept 2021
Dallas Jason W, Meshaka Walter E, Zeglin Lydia, Warne Robin W
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BACKGROUND: The gut microbiota is an emerging frontier in wildlife research and its importance to vertebrate health and physiology is becoming ever more apparent. Reptiles, in particular snakes, have not received the same attention given to other vertebrates and the composition of their wild gut microbiome remains understudied. The primary goal of this work was to describe the cloacal microbiota of two Colubrids,...
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