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Nearly (?) sterile avian egg in a passerine bird
2023-02-14
Abstract excerpt
During early ontogeny, microbiome affects development of the gastrointestinal tract, immunity and survival in vertebrates. Bird egg has been suggested to be either (1) initially sterile ( Sterile egg hypothesis ) and (2) colonized through horizontal trans-shell migration after egg laying, or (3) initially seeded with bacteria through vertical transfer from mother’ ss oviduct. Little empirical data illuminate so...
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- Literature Corpus work
- e9a34ed4-d8b5-5d29-8106-d24fa67eda67
- DOI
- 10.1101/2023.02.14.528324
