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Editorial
. 2021 Jun 21:12:697499.
doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.697499. eCollection 2021.

Editorial: The Wildlife Gut Microbiome and Its Implication for Conservation Biology

Lifeng Zhu  1 , Jianjun Wang  2 , Simon Bahrndorff  3
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Editorial: The Wildlife Gut Microbiome and Its Implication for Conservation Biology

Lifeng Zhu et al. Front Microbiol. .
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Keywords: adaptation; conservation; host-microbiome; microbiome; reintroduction.

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