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Protective role of the vulture facial and gut microbiomes aid adaptation to scavenging

2017-10-30

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<h4>Background</h4> Vultures have adapted the remarkable ability to feed on carcasses that may contain microorganisms that would be pathogenic to most other animals. The holobiont concept suggests that the genetic basis of such adaptation may not only lie within their genomes, but additionally in their associated microbes. To explore this, we generated shotgun DNA sequencing datasets of the facial and gut microbi...

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Literature Corpus work: 326a5995-1843-542c-a62b-dee523496e37
DOI: 10.1101/211490

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