Does solar irradiation drive community assembly of vulture plumage microbiotas?

Graves, Gary R.; Matterson, Kenan O.; Milensky, Christopher M.; Schmidt, Brian K.; O'Mahoney, Michael J. V.; Drovetski, Sergei V.

dc.contributor.author	Graves, Gary R.	en
dc.contributor.author	Matterson, Kenan O.	en
dc.contributor.author	Milensky, Christopher M.	en
dc.contributor.author	Schmidt, Brian K.	en
dc.contributor.author	O'Mahoney, Michael J. V.	en
dc.contributor.author	Drovetski, Sergei V.	en
dc.date.accessioned	2020-08-21T02:02:54Z
dc.date.available	2020-08-21T02:02:54Z
dc.date.issued	2020
dc.identifier.citation	Graves, Gary R., Matterson, Kenan O., Milensky, Christopher M., Schmidt, Brian K., O'Mahoney, Michael J. V., and Drovetski, Sergei V. 2020. "<a href="https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/106887">Does solar irradiation drive community assembly of vulture plumage microbiotas?</a>." <em>Animal Microbiome</em> 2 (1):24. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1186/s42523-020-00043-7">https://doi.org/10.1186/s42523-020-00043-7</a>	en
dc.identifier.issn	2524-4671
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10088/106887
dc.description.abstract	Stereotyped sunning behaviour in birds has been hypothesized to inhibit keratin-degrading bacteria but there is little evidence that solar irradiation affects community assembly and abundance of plumage microbiota. The monophyletic New World vultures (Cathartiformes) are renowned for scavenging vertebrate carrion, spread-wing sunning at roosts, and thermal soaring. Few avian species experience greater exposure to solar irradiation. We used 16S rRNA sequencing to investigate the plumage microbiota of wild individuals of five sympatric species of vultures in Guyana.	en
dc.relation.ispartof	Animal Microbiome	en
dc.title	Does solar irradiation drive community assembly of vulture plumage microbiotas?	en
dc.type	Journal Article	en
dc.identifier.srbnumber	156697
dc.identifier.doi	10.1186/s42523-020-00043-7
rft.jtitle	Animal Microbiome
rft.volume	2
rft.issue	1
rft.spage	24
dc.description.SIUnit	NH-Invertebrate Zoology	en
dc.description.SIUnit	NH-Vertebrate Zoology	en
dc.description.SIUnit	NMNH	en
dc.citation.spage	24