Cloacal bacterial communities of tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor): Similarity within a population, but not between pair-bonded social partners

Jessica Hernandez; Camilo Escallón; Daniel Medina; Ben J. Vernasco; Jenifer B. Walke; Lisa K. Belden; Ignacio T. Moore

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0228982

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Cloacal bacterial communities of tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor): Similarity within a population, but not between pair-bonded social partners

Jessica Hernandez ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: jess228@vt.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7385-6174

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Camilo Escallón,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Departamento de Ciencias Básicas, Universidad de La Salle, Bogotá, Colombia

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0656-3563

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Daniel Medina,

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Departamento de Biologia Animal, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
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Ben J. Vernasco,

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
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Jenifer B. Walke,

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Biology, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, Washington, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
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Lisa K. Belden,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
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Ignacio T. Moore

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
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Cloacal bacterial communities of tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor): Similarity within a population, but not between pair-bonded social partners

Jessica Hernandez,
Camilo Escallón,
Daniel Medina,
Ben J. Vernasco,
Jenifer B. Walke,
Lisa K. Belden,
Ignacio T. Moore

Published: February 11, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228982

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