Roggenbuck, Michael; Schnell, Ida Bærholm; Blom, Nikolaj; Bælum, Jacob; Bertelsen, Mads Frost; Pontén, Thomas Sicheritz; Sørensen, Søren Johannes; Gilbert, M. T.; Graves, Gary R.; Hansen, Lars H.
(2014)
Vultures are scavengers that fill a key ecosystem niche, in which they have evolved a remarkable tolerance to bacterial toxins in decaying meat. Here we report the first deep metagenomic analysis of the vulture microbiome. ...