Does solar irradiation drive community assembly of vulture plumage microbiotas?

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dc.contributor.authorGraves, Gary R.
dc.contributor.authorMatterson, Kenan O.
dc.contributor.authorMilensky, Christopher M.
dc.contributor.authorSchmidt, Brian K.
dc.contributor.authorO'Mahoney, Michael J. V.
dc.contributor.authorDrovetski, Sergei V.
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-21T02:02:54Z
dc.date.available2020-08-21T02:02:54Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractStereotyped 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.
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dc.identifier2524-4671
dc.identifier.citationGraves, 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>.
dc.identifier.issn2524-4671
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10088/106887
dc.relation.ispartofAnimal Microbiome 2 (1)
dc.titleDoes solar irradiation drive community assembly of vulture plumage microbiotas?
dc.typearticle
sro.description.unitNH-Invertebrate Zoology
sro.description.unitNH-Vertebrate Zoology
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sro.identifier.doi10.1186/s42523-020-00043-7
sro.identifier.itemID156697
sro.identifier.refworksID19959
sro.identifier.urlhttps://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/106887

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