Social odours covary with bacterial community in the anal secretions of wild meerkats

Abstract The fermentation hypothesis for animal signalling posits that bacteria dwelling in an animal’s scent glands metabolize the glands’ primary products into odorous compounds used by the host to communicate with conspecifics. There is, however, little evidence of the predicted covariation betwe...

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Autores principales: Sarah Leclaire, Staffan Jacob, Lydia K. Greene, George R. Dubay, Christine M. Drea
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/d2eaf476d455444289ceee89c5e01017
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