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. 2023:2562:425-442.
doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2659-7_28.

Screening Salamanders for Symbionts

Elli Vickers  1 , Ryan Kerney  2
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Screening Salamanders for Symbionts

Elli Vickers et al. Methods Mol Biol. 2023.

Abstract

Microbial symbionts are broadly categorized by their impacts on host fitness: commensals, pathogens, and mutualists. However, recent investigations into the physiological basis of these impacts have revealed nuanced microbial influences on a wide range of host developmental, immunological, and physiological processes, including regeneration. Exploring these impacts begins with knowing which microbes are present. This methodological pipeline contains both targeted assays using PCR and culturing, as well as culture-independent approaches, to survey host salamander tissues for common and unknown microbial symbionts.

Keywords: Bacteria; Batrachochytrium; Culturing; Metabarcoding; Microbiota; Oophila.

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