Composition and structure of the skin microbiota of rorquals off the Eastern South Pacific

• Published in: FEMS Microbiology Ecology
• Main Authors: Toro, Frederick, Alarcón, Jaime, Márquez, Sebastián, Capella, Juan, Bahamonde, Paulina, Esperón, Fernando, Moreno-Switt, Andrea, Castro-Nallar, Eduardo
• Other Authors: FONDECYT
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press (OUP) 2021
• Subjects: Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology; Ecology; Microbiology; Pacific; Rorqual; Balaenoptera musculus; Balaenoptera physalus; Megaptera novaeangliae
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiab050; http://academic.oup.com/femsec/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/femsec/fiab050/36657005/fiab050.pdf; http://academic.oup.com/femsec/article-pdf/97/5/fiab050/37054536/fiab050.pdf

ABSTRACT Recent advances in high-throughput sequencing have enabled the large-scale interrogation of microbiota in the most diverse environments, including host-associated microbiota. This has led to the recognition that the skin microbiota of rorquals is specific and structurally different from tha...