Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Loo WT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6906294 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Loo Wesley T WT García-Loor Jefferson J Dudaniec Rachael Y RY Kleindorfer Sonia S Cavanaugh Colleen M CM
Scientific reports 20191211 1
Darwin's finches are an iconic example of an adaptive radiation with well-characterized evolutionary history, dietary preferences, and biogeography, offering an unparalleled opportunity to disentangle effects of evolutionary history on host microbiome from other factors like diet and habitat. Here, we characterize the gut microbiome in Darwin's finches, comparing nine species that occupy diverse ecological niches on Santa Cruz island. The finch phylogeny showed moderate congruence with the micro ...[more]