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Aug 2026
Functional phylosymbiosis in birds: phylogeny and antimicrobial properties of bacterial symbionts in Bucerotiformes
It is suggested that antimicrobial properties of symbionts could be responsible for the detected phylosymbiosis and that natural selection may favour uropygial gland features allowing hosts to harbour specific antimicrobial-producing symbionts.
M. Barón, M. Martín-Vivaldi, Ester Martínez‐Renau et al.
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