Hindgut Microbiota Reflects Different Digestive Strategies in Dung Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Hindgut Microbiota Reflects Different Digestive Strategies in Dung Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)

Published:2021-02-12 Issue:5 Volume:87 Page:
ISSN:0099-2240
Container-title:Applied and Environmental Microbiology
language:en
Short-container-title:Appl Environ Microbiol

Author:

Ebert Kathryn M.¹^ORCID,Arnold William G.¹,Ebert Paul R.¹,Merritt David J.¹

Affiliation:

1. School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Abstract

Dung beetles are a very important part of an ecosystem because of their role in the removal and decomposition of vertebrate dung. It has been suspected that symbiotic gut bacteria facilitate this role, a hypothesis that we have explored with high-throughput barcoding.

Funder

University of Queensland

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Ecology,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,Food Science,Biotechnology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/AEM.02100-20

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