Cloacal Bacterial Diversity Increases with Multiple Mates: Evidence of Sexual Transmission in Female Common Lizards

Joël White; Murielle Richard; Manuel Massot; Sandrine Meylan

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0022339

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Cloacal Bacterial Diversity Increases with Multiple Mates: Evidence of Sexual Transmission in Female Common Lizards

Joël White ,

* E-mail: joel.white@ua.ac.be

Affiliations Ecologie & Evolution (UMPC-ENS-CNRS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, Evolutionary Ecology Group, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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Murielle Richard,

Affiliation Ecologie & Evolution (UMPC-ENS-CNRS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
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Manuel Massot,

Affiliation Ecologie & Evolution (UMPC-ENS-CNRS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
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Sandrine Meylan

Affiliations Ecologie & Evolution (UMPC-ENS-CNRS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maîtres de Paris, Ecole interne de l'Université Sorbonne–Paris IV, Paris, France
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Cloacal Bacterial Diversity Increases with Multiple Mates: Evidence of Sexual Transmission in Female Common Lizards

Joël White,
Murielle Richard,
Manuel Massot,
Sandrine Meylan

Published: July 21, 2011
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022339

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