Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 62, No. 4 (2017), pp. 1570-1585 (16 pages) Bacterial communities comprise large numbers of species and normally include a few abundant taxa and many rare taxa. These ...

An average of 570 OTUs/sample were found. The alpha diversity indexes that indicate the community richness and diversity of bacteria in oral mucosa and aphthous ulcers were calculated. The ...

We were able to show that a cardinal's coloration related to its microbiome diversity." Both alpha and beta bacterial diversity were related to individual variation in body condition and several ...