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SUBMITTER: Ibanez A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7854437 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ibáñez Alejandro A Bletz Molly C MC Quezada Galo G Geffers Robert R Jarek Michael M Vences Miguel M Steinfartz Sebastian S
Die Naturwissenschaften 20210202 1
Gut microorganisms are crucial for many biological functions playing a pivotal role in the host's well-being. We studied gut bacterial community structure of marine iguana populations across the Galápagos archipelago. Marine iguanas depend heavily on their specialized gut microbiome for the digestion of dietary algae, a resource whose growth was strongly reduced by severe "El Niño"-related climatic fluctuations in 2015/2016. As a consequence, marine iguana populations showed signs of starvation ...[more]