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| Title |
Exploring the avian gut microbiota: current trends and future directions
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Microbiology, July 2015
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| DOI | 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00673 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
David W. Waite, Michael W. Taylor |
| Abstract |
Birds represent a diverse and evolutionarily successful lineage, occupying a wide range of niches throughout the world. Like all vertebrates, avians harbor diverse communities of microorganisms within their guts, which collectively fulfill crucial roles in providing the host with nutrition and protection from pathogens. Across the field of avian microbiology knowledge is extremely uneven, with several species accounting for an overwhelming majority of all microbiological investigations. These include agriculturally important birds, such as chickens and turkeys, as well as birds of evolutionary or conservation interest. In our previous study we attempted the first meta-analysis of the avian gut microbiota, using 16S rRNA gene sequences obtained from a range of publicly available data sets. We have now extended our analysis to explore the microbiology of several key species in detail, to consider the avian microbiota within the context of what is known about other vertebrates, and to identify key areas of interest in avian microbiology for future study. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 1 | 25% |
| Unknown | 3 | 75% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 50% |
| Scientists | 2 | 50% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 347 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| New Zealand | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 340 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 74 | 21% |
| Researcher | 59 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 53 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 43 | 12% |
| Other | 17 | 5% |
| Other | 45 | 13% |
| Unknown | 56 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 158 | 46% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 35 | 10% |
| Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine | 21 | 6% |
| Environmental Science | 20 | 6% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 17 | 5% |
| Other | 24 | 7% |
| Unknown | 72 | 21% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 March 2023.
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#2,080
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#32,250
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#27
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