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Paternal care as a source of key skin microbiota in a poison frog

2025-12-30

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Parental care is a well-established mechanism for the vertical transfer of gut microbiota, yet its role in shaping offspring skin microbial communities remains largely unexplored. Using a cross-fostering experiment in a Neotropical poison frog, we demonstrate that paternal tadpole transport is a critical vector for the transmission of skin microbiota. Tadpoles transported by both biological and foster fathers acqu...

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Literature Corpus work: 359443a0-deb1-5e52-bf89-c12098d093f1
DOI: 10.64898/2025.12.30.696907

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