Faecal microbiota in the short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) shows stability across gestation

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<title>Abstract</title><p>Background Indigenous microbial communities (microbiota) play critical roles in health and may be especially important for mother and fetus during pregnancy. Having diverged from Eutherian mammals roughly 184 million years ago, monotremes, such as the short-beaked echidna, have evolved to lay and incubate an egg, which hatches in their pouch where the young feeds. Since both faeces and eg...

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• Animal Nutrition and Physiology
• Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
• Gut microbiota and health
• Probiotics and Fermented Foods

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7ee5517a-8231-5d98-9a74-31f522bd9e30

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10.21203/rs.3.rs-3243769/v1