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SUBMITTER: Murray MH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7058277 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Murray Maureen H MH Lankau Emily W EW Kidd Anjelika D AD Welch Catharine N CN Ellison Taylor T Adams Henry C HC Lipp Erin K EK Hernandez Sonia M SM
PloS one 20200305 3
Microbial communities in the gastrointestinal tract influence many aspects of host health, including metabolism and susceptibility to pathogen colonization. These relationships and the environmental and individual factors that drive them are relatively unexplored for free-living wildlife. We quantified the relationships between urban habitat use, diet, and age with microbiome composition and diversity for 82 American white ibises (Eudocimus albus) captured along an urban gradient in south Florid ...[more]