TY - GEN AU - Rodríguez Ruano, Sonia AU - Martín-Vivaldi Martínez, Manuel Lorenzo AU - Peralta-Sánchez, Juan Manuel AU - García-Martín, Ana B. AU - Martínez-García, Ángela AU - Soler Cruz, Juan José AU - Valdivia Martínez, Dolores Eva AU - Martínez Bueno, Manuel PY - 2018 SN - 2073-4425 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10481/55400 AB - The uropygial gland of hoopoe nestlings and nesting females hosts bacterial symbionts that cause changes in the characteristics of its secretion, including an increase of its antimicrobial activity. These changes occur only in nesting individuals... LA - eng PB - MDPI KW - Bacteria KW - Clostridia KW - Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) KW - High-throughput sequencing KW - Hoopoe KW - Microbiota KW - Mutualism KW - Quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) KW - Uropygial gland secretion TI - Seasonal and Sexual Differences in the Microbiota of the Hoopoe Uropygial Secretion ER -