Maraci, Öncü; Antonatou-Papaioannou, Anna; Jünemann, Sebastian; Castillo, Omar; Busche, Tobias; Kalinowski, Jörn; Caspers, Barbara: The Gut Microbial Composition Is Species-Specific and Individual-Specific in Two Species of Estrildid Finches, the Bengalese Finch and the Zebra Finch. In: Frontiers in Microbiology. Jg.12. 2021
Inhalt
- Materials and Methods
- Ethics Statement
- Study Organisms and Sampling
- DNA Extraction and Library Preparation
- Bioinformatics Processing
- Statistical Analyses
- Results
- Structure of the Gut Microbial Communities in Relation to Host Taxonomy
- Structure of the Gut Microbial Communities in Relation to Host ID
- Sex-Specific Differences in Diversity and Structure of the Gut Microbial Communities
- Microbial Similarity Between Mating Pairs
- Discussion
- Taxonomic Composition of the Gut Microbial Communities
- Species-Specific Differences in Community Diversity and Composition
- Individual-Specificity and Stability of Microbial Communities
- The Effect of Sex and Sex-Specific Temporal Alterations in Community Diversity and Composition
- Microbial Similarity Between the Mating Pairs
- Conclusion and Outlook
- Data Availability Statement
- Ethics Statement
- Author Contributions
- Funding
- Acknowledgments
- Supplementary Material
- References