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The role of family and environment in determining the skin microbiome of captive aquatic frogs, <i>Xenopus laevis</i>
2023-10-06
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<h4>Background</h4> The amphibian skin microbiome has drawn interest due to the ecological threat posed by chytridiomycosis, which drives changes in symbiotic microbial communities and may be inhibited by certain bacterial taxa. However, skin microbes also play a role in amphibian tissue regeneration. Xenopus spp. are well-established model organisms used to study development, regeneration, genetics and disease....
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- Literature Corpus work
- d99c8888-844a-5a5d-a100-5699244c43ae
- DOI
- 10.1101/2023.10.05.561135
