Does solar irradiation drive community assembly of vulture plumage microbiotas?

Graves, Gary R.; Matterson, Kenan O.; Milensky, Christopher M.; Schmidt, Brian K.; O'Mahoney, Michael J. V.; Drovetski, Sergei V.

dc.contributor.author	Graves, Gary R.
dc.contributor.author	Matterson, Kenan O.
dc.contributor.author	Milensky, Christopher M.
dc.contributor.author	Schmidt, Brian K.
dc.contributor.author	O'Mahoney, Michael J. V.
dc.contributor.author	Drovetski, Sergei V.
dc.date.accessioned	2020-08-21T02:02:54Z
dc.date.available	2020-08-21T02:02:54Z
dc.date.issued	2020
dc.identifier	2524-4671
dc.identifier.citation	Graves, Gary R., Matterson, Kenan O., Milensky, Christopher M., Schmidt, Brian K., O'Mahoney, Michael J. V., and Drovetski, Sergei V. 2020. "<a href="http://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/106887">Does solar irradiation drive community assembly of vulture plumage microbiotas?</a>" <em>Animal Microbiome</em>, 2, (1) 24. <a href="http://doi.org/10.1186/s42523-020-00043-7">http://doi.org/10.1186/s42523-020-00043-7</a>.
dc.identifier.issn	2524-4671
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10088/106887
dc.description.abstract	Stereotyped sunning behaviour in birds has been hypothesized to inhibit keratin-degrading bacteria but there is little evidence that solar irradiation affects community assembly and abundance of plumage microbiota. The monophyletic New World vultures (Cathartiformes) are renowned for scavenging vertebrate carrion, spread-wing sunning at roosts, and thermal soaring. Few avian species experience greater exposure to solar irradiation. We used 16S rRNA sequencing to investigate the plumage microbiota of wild individuals of five sympatric species of vultures in Guyana.
dc.format.extent	24
dc.relation.ispartof	Animal Microbiome 2 (1)
dc.title	Does solar irradiation drive community assembly of vulture plumage microbiotas?
dc.type	article
sro.identifier.refworksID	19959
sro.identifier.itemID	156697
sro.description.unit	NH-Invertebrate Zoology
sro.description.unit	NH-Vertebrate Zoology
sro.description.unit	NMNH
sro.identifier.doi	10.1186/s42523-020-00043-7
sro.identifier.url	http://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/106887