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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Preiswerk D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6052066 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The ISME journal 20180604 8
The habitats that animals, humans and plants provide for microbial communities are inevitably transient, changing drastically when these hosts die. Because microbes associated with living hosts are ensured prime access to the deceased host's organic matter, it is feasible that opportunistic, adaptable lifestyles are widespread among host-associated microbes. Here we investigate the temporal dynamics of microbiota by starving to death a host-the planktonic Crustacean Daphnia magna-and tracking th ...[more]