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Humpback whales harbor a highly novel and endemic gut microbiome that adapts to periods of fasting during migration

2025-04-07

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Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) are cosmopolitan in distribution and most populations migrate between foraging and breeding grounds each year1,2. As capital breeders, many humpbacks reduce foraging behavior and potentially fast for a few months of the year3. Here, we present a comparative genomic analysis of the gut microbiomes from humpbacks on two breeding grounds: Gulf of California, where feeding is c...

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Literature Corpus work: 583986f4-1db9-593c-ae8d-07e13667c433
DOI: 10.1101/2025.04.03.647021

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