ArticleRoyal Society open science2018
Host species, pathogens and disease associated with divergent nasal microbial communities in tortoises.
Article in Royal Society open science, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Potential Facilitation Between a Commensal and a Pathogenic Microbe in a Wildlife Disease.EcoHealth · 2022Article
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- Presumptive heterophil extracellular traps recognized cytologically in nine reptile patients with inflammatory conditions.The veterinary quarterly · 2021Article
- Evaluation of the Respiratory Microbiome and the Use of Tracheal Lavage as a Diagnostic Tool in Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtles (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
- Host species, pathogens and disease associated with divergent nasal microbial communities in tortoises.Royal Society open science · 2018Article
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Abstract
Diverse bacterial communities are found on every surface of macro-organisms, and they play important roles in maintaining normal physiological functions in their hosts. While the study of microbiomes has expanded with the influx of data enabled by recent technological advances, microbiome research in reptiles lags behind other organisms. We sequenced the nasal microbiomes in a sample of four North American tortoise species, and we found differing community compositions among tortoise species and sampling sites, with higher richness and diversity in Texas and Sonoran desert tortoises. Using these data, we investigated the prevalence and operational taxonomic unit (OTU) diversity of the potential pathogen
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