Article
Adaptive shifts of the skin and gut microbiomes during metamorphosis of anuran amphibians
2023-09-11
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>The gut and skin microbiota play critical roles in host fitness. Anuran amphibian metamorphosis reshapes and restructures their morphology, physiology, and behavior and usually prepares them for a transformation from an aquatic to a terrestrial or semi-terrestrial lifestyle, with drastic changes in food and habitat. Changes in the microbiota on amphibian skin and their gut microbiota th...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 7becca62-ecfd-50d0-8c87-41a186a29094
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3327674/v1
