TY  - GEN 
AU  - Soler, Juan José
AU  - Barón, María Dolores
AU  - Martínez-Renau, Ester
AU  - Zhang, Lu
AU  - Liang, Wei
AU  - Martín-Vivaldi Martínez, Manuel Lorenzo
PY  - 2024
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/10481/101736
AB  - The European hoopoe (Upupa epops) conforms a paradigmatic example of animals cultivating bacteria in their uropygial gland that protect them against pathogenic infections. We here explore the hypothesis that enterococci are the responsible bacteria of...
LA  - eng
PB  - Springer Nature
KW  - Symbiotic bacteria
KW  - Antiparasite defense
KW  - Uropygial gland
KW  - Bird ecology
TI  - Nesting hoopoes cultivate in their uropygial gland the microbial symbionts with the highest antimicrobial capacity
DO  - 10.1038/s41598-024-81062-1
ER  -