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. 2016 Jul 7:7:1060.
doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01060. eCollection 2016.

A First Insight into the Gut Microbiota of the Sea Turtle Caretta caretta

Khaled F A Abdelrhman  1 , Giovanni Bacci  1 , Cecilia Mancusi  2 , Alessio Mengoni  1 , Fabrizio Serena  2 , Alberto Ugolini  1
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A First Insight into the Gut Microbiota of the Sea Turtle Caretta caretta

Khaled F A Abdelrhman et al. Front Microbiol. .
No abstract available

Keywords: 16S rRNA gene; Caretta caretta; Loggerhead Turtle; Vagoccoccus; gut; microbial communities; microbiome.

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Figure 1
Taxonomic composition of C. caretta gut and faeces microbiota at different taxonomic levels. The percentage of occurrence of each taxon is reported as cumulative bar chart. (A) Phylum; (B) Class. The legend shows the list of taxa from top to bottom of the bars.
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