ArticleMicrobial ecology2011
Plumage bacterial assemblages in a breeding wild passerine: relationships with ecological factors and body condition.
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- Nest Box Bacterial Loads Are Affected by Cavity Use by Secondary Hole Nesters.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
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- Not so black, not so white: differences in microorganism load of contiguous feathers from white stork chicks.Current zoology · 2021Article
- Quantitative Interspecific Approach to the Stylosphere: Patterns of Bacteria and Fungi Abundance on Passerine Bird Feathers.Microbial ecology · 2021Article
- Composition of the North American Wood Frog (Rana sylvatica) Bacterial Skin Microbiome and Seasonal Variation in Community Structure.Microbial ecology · 2021Article
- Experimental study of the effect of preen oil against feather bacteria in passerine birds.Oecologia · 2020Article
- Recapture probability, flight morphology, and microorganisms.Current zoology · 2018Article
- Morphological and genetic factors shape the microbiome of a seabird species (Oceanodroma leucorhoa) more than environmental and social factors.Microbiome · 2017Article
- Evolutionary Biology Needs Wild Microbiomes.Frontiers in microbiology · 2017Review
- Similarities and seasonal variations in bacterial communities from the blood of rodents and from their flea vectors.The ISME journal · 2015Article
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- Life history correlates of fecal bacterial species richness in a wild population of the blue tit Cyanistes caeruleus.Ecology and evolution · 2015Article
- Do feather-degrading bacteria actually degrade feather colour? No significant effects of plumage microbiome modifications on feather colouration in wild great tits.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2014Article
- Uropygial gland size and composition varies according to experimentally modified microbiome in Great tits.BMC evolutionary biology · 2014Article
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- Association of host and microbial species diversity across spatial scales in desert rodent communities.PloS one · 2014Article
- Differences in culturable microbial communities in bird nestboxes according to orientation and influences on offspring quality in great tits (Parus major).Microbial ecology · 2012Article
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Abstract
Microorganisms have been shown to play an important role in shaping the life histories of animals, and it has recently been suggested that feather-degrading bacteria influence the trade-off between parental effort and self-preening behavior in birds. We studied a wild breeding population of great tits (Parus major) to explore habitat-, seasonal-, and sex-related variation in feather-degrading and free-living bacteria inhabiting the birds' yellow ventral feathers and to investigate associations with body condition. The density and species richness of bacterial assemblages was studied using flow cytometry and ribosomal intergenic spacer analysis. The density of studied bacteria declined between the nest-building period and the first brood. The number of bacterial phylotypes per bird was higher in coniferous habitat, while bacterial densities were higher in deciduous habitat. Free-living bacterial density was positively correlated with female mass; conversely, there was a negative correlation between attached bacterial density and female mass during the period of peak reproductive effort. Bacterial species richness was sex dependent, with more diverse bacterial assemblages present on males than females. Thus, this study revealed that bacterial assemblages on the feathers of breeding birds are affected both by life history and ecological factors and are related to body condition.
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