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Age-Related Changes in the Hoatzin Crop Bacterial Community
(External Scientific Advisory Committe (ESAC), 2009-11)
The hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin)is a South American folivorous bird, with a crop microbial ecosystem that ferments dietary plant material.
Juvenile birds progressively become independent from the chicks fed by adults ...
The crop bacterial microbiota in adult hoatzins from different geographical locations
(External Scientific Advisory Committe (ESAC), 2009-11)
The hoatzin is the only folivorous bird known to have foregut fermentation. Since changes in plant availability must influence the dietary choices and affect the structure of the digestive microbiota in herbivores, we ...
How microbes and hosts interact?
(External Scientific Advisory Committe (ESAC), 2009-10)
Detecting Vertical Transfer of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in the Absence of Antibiotics
(External Scientific Advisory Committe (ESAC), 2009-11)
Our hypothesis is that antibiotic resistance can be vertically transmitted between generations, in the absence of antibiotics. Mothers readily colonize their offspring with bacteria that have antibiotic resistance genes.
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Diversity of fungi in the Hoatzin crop: an 18S rDNA-based approach
(Extenal Scientific Advisory Committe (ESAC), 2009-11)
The Hoatzin is a unique South American herbivorous bird and the smallest vertebrate to have a fermentative crop, similar to the cow rumen. Like bacteria, fungi play an important role in ...
Molecular typification of bacterial isolates from the hoatzin crop (Opisthocomus hoazin)
(External Scientific Advisory Committe (ESAC), 2009-11)
The Hoatzin is one of the world’s few obligate folivorous birds inhabiting the riverine forests of northern South America. It is the smallest vertebrate to have an enlarged foregut, in which plant structural carbohydrates ...
Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Feral Goats of Mona Island
(External Scientific Advisory Committe (ESAC), 2009-11)
Background: Domesticated animals are exposed to antibiotics used in veterinary medicine or as feed additives. Over 4 centuries ago, goats were brought by the Spaniards to the Caribbean island of Mona, and have lived since ...