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From: Multi-level comparisons of cloacal, skin, feather and nest-associated microbiota suggest considerable influence of horizontal acquisition on the microbiota assembly of sympatric woodlarks and skylarks

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Alpha diversity metrics across sample types of sympatric woodlarks and skylarks. Bacterial OTU richness a and Shannon diversity b are consistently variable within sample types, and c, d unbiased estimates of the coefficients of variation show decreasing trends of variability of OTU richness and Shannon diversity of bacterial communities, evaluated for each sample type and ordered from the bird’s internal community outward to the surface soil communities. a, b Letters represent pairwise contrasts (P < 0.01) of sample type means of woodlarks (lower case grey) and skylarks (capital red)

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Microbiome

ISSN: 2049-2618

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