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: Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo (Chile), Ministerio de Educación (Chile)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2021
• Subjects: Amplicon sequence variants; Amplicon sequencing; bacterial composition; pacific ocean; rorquals; skin microbiota; Inach; Pacific; Rorqual; Balaenoptera musculus; Balaenoptera physalus; Megaptera novaeangliae
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/287755; https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiab050; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100002847; https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85104276671

10 Pág. Centro de Investigación en Sanidad Animal (CISA) 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...